[OSX-Users] Re: Mac disk encryption

[Julian Field]

Here you go:

http://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT4790

There's also a Wikipedia article on it (but that *may* only cover 
version 1, current is 2).

Jules.

On 02/02/2015 10:44, Leslie Carr wrote:
> Can someone point me at some documentation? I have an embarrassingly large number of questions on how this works and what its implications are for me and my aluminium unibody pal who's fun to be with.
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> On 2 Feb 2015, at 10:26, Steve Harris <s.w.harris at ecs.soton.ac.uk<mailto:s.w.harris at ecs.soton.ac.uk>> wrote:
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> That’s actually pretty awesome… as long as the laptop has an SSD, if it has spinning rust it will suck a fair bit for the user.
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> On 2 Feb 2015, at 10:20, Tim Chown <tjc at ecs.soton.ac.uk<mailto:tjc at ecs.soton.ac.uk>> wrote:
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> On 2 Feb 2015, at 10:19, Julian Field <Jules at ecs.soton.ac.uk<mailto:Jules at ecs.soton.ac.uk>> wrote:
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> Note that it only appears to do this as part of the upgrade process on laptops, not minis or iMacs.
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> Presumably because laptops are more losable/nickable…
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> Jules.
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> On 02/02/2015 10:17, Tim Chown wrote:
> On 2 Feb 2015, at 10:11, Julian Field <Jules at ecs.soton.ac.uk<mailto:Jules at ecs.soton.ac.uk>> wrote:
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> Why is that a bad idea? All laptops issued directly by iSolutions have encryption enabled, both Mac and Windows.
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> Just alerting people to the fact that they have a choice, and that the default encryption is a New Thing.
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> Tim
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> On 02/02/2015 09:55, Tim Chown wrote:
> Beware if clicking through the 10.10.2 Yosemite update - by default it will turn on disk encryption.
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> Jules
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