[OSX-Users] Re: Mac disk encryption

[Vladimiro Sassone]

Good idea. Spinning disk or SSD, as long as you have a Core processor with crypto instruction set, there is no real justification to turn disk encryption off on a laptop. You can find benchmarks around that show the effect on performance is negligible.

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> On 2 Feb 2015, at 10:11, Julian Field <Jules at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> Why is that a bad idea? All laptops issued directly by iSolutions have encryption enabled, both Mac and Windows.
> 
> 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.
>> 
>> Tim
>> 
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> Jules
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