[OSX-Users] Re: Mac disk encryption

[Hugh Glaser]

Thanks.
> On 2 Feb 2015, at 16:07, Steve Harris <S.W.Harris at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
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>> 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?
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> Yeah, I have.
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>> Cheers
>>> 
>>> Jules.
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>>>>> 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:
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>>>>>>> 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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>>> Senior Tutor, Postmaster
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