[OSX-Users] Re: Mac disk encryption

Julian Field Jules at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Mon Feb 2 14:31:44 GMT 2015


On 02/02/2015 14:18, Hugh Glaser wrote:
>
> I decided the answer was no.
> Of course, where business use requires it, I can keep another user that has encryption turned on - it is per user.
I believe that was true of FileVault. FileVault 2 is whole disk 
encryption and so is not per-user.

Jules.

>
>> On 2 Feb 2015, at 11:13, Julian Field <Jules at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>> It's very obvious when it offers you to turn it on, not something you can easily miss at the end of the upgrade process.
>> Not quite sure in what configurations it offers you FileVault yet. As you say, not all laptop upgrades offer it to you.
>>
>> Jules.
>>
>> On 02/02/2015 10:58, Nicholas Gibbins wrote:
>>> Does it? I installed the update yesterday, and FileVault is still off.
>>>
>>> Nick
>>>
>>>> On 2 Feb 2015, at 09:55, Tim Chown <tjc at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Beware if clicking through the 10.10.2 Yosemite update - by default it will turn on disk encryption.
>>>>
>>>> Tim
>>>>
>> Jules
>>
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Jules

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