With this command run, the system will enable FileVault and save the designated user as the account authorized to unlock the hard drive. The redirect to the "recoverykey.plist" file (or whatever ...

Users running OS X 10.7 (Lion) or later, all the way through the current version of macOS 10.13 (High Sierra), may enable and fully utilize the full-disk encryption capabilities of FileVault 2 on ...

A bug in OS X 10.7.3 exposes legacy FileVault users, but there are some workarounds to prevent this from happening. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author ...

FileVault 2, the FDE technology built into Lion (Mac OS X 10.7), meets those three criteria in the right circumstances, but getting it up and running is not as easy as 1, 2, 3.(Speaking of which ...

As I explained in our complete guide to FileVault 2, FileVault 2 lets Lion users encrypt their entire startup drive.When a Mac with FileVault enabled starts up or restarts, a special login screen ...

My MacBook Air has 4 user accounts on it: for me, my wife, my son, and my mother-in-law (long story). My wife and I both use secure passwords, but my mother-in-law and son do not.

FileVault has been available on Macs since Mac OS X 10.3 Panther, but it had some shortcomings in terms of security. For one, it would only encrypt the user’s home directory, leaving the rest of ...

Apple’s FileVault makes it much harder for unauthorized users to extract this kind of data from company Macs. It does so by encrypting the data on the Mac and decrypting it only once an ...

It’s still recommended that FileVault 2 gets enabled, so automatic log-in cannot be enabled. The only time you don’t want to use FileVault is for Macs in shared areas (school labs, etc.). Wrap-up ...

I enabled FileVault, so far so good. (One bad: choosing to encrypt the TimeMachine backup means wiping the TM content first.) When you power up a laptop, you immediately go to the login screen. It ...