[OSX-Users] Re: Mac disk encryption

[Steve Harris]

> On 2 Feb 2015, at 14:47, Hugh Glaser <hg at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
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>> On 2 Feb 2015, at 14:31, Julian Field <Jules at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
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>> On 02/02/2015 14:18, Hugh Glaser wrote:
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>>> 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.
> Ah, I was wondering about that.
> So, can I have second confirmation (in addition to Vladimiro) that someone has managed to recover a single file from a TM backup when using FV2 please?

Yeah, I have.


> Cheers
>> 
>> Jules.
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>>>> On 2 Feb 2015, at 11:13, Julian Field <Jules at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
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>>>> 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.
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>>>> On 02/02/2015 10:58, Nicholas Gibbins wrote:
>>>>> Does it? I installed the update yesterday, and FileVault is still off.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Nick
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>>>>>> On 2 Feb 2015, at 09:55, Tim Chown <tjc at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
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>>>>>> Beware if clicking through the 10.10.2 Yosemite update - by default it will turn on disk encryption.
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>>>>>> Tim
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>>>> Jules
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>>> Hugh
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>> Jules
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>> Jules Field MEng MBCS CITP CEng
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>> 
>> Senior Tutor, Postmaster
>> Electronics and Computer Science
>> University of Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
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