So what is the latest with FileVault? I have been thinking about turning it on when I upgrade to 10.6, any reason not to?<BR><BR>I will have CrashPlan installed and backing up my unencrypted files ...

However, from what little information I have, what seemed to hose my Leopard installation has to do with FileVault. If you have FileVault on, you could face the same problems I've had.

This security flaw, apparantly created when Apple left debugging code in the 10.7.3 update, is only triggered with Lion systems in which legacy support for the original FileVault is retained and ...

The security hole will only affect people who upgraded from Snow Leopard who kept using their legacy FileVault setups and who have have then upgraded to the latest OS X 10.7.3.

Apple just released OS X Lion 10.7.4, which fixes a nasty bug that exposed FileVault passwords in plain text if Snow Leopard users upgraded to Lion but kept using their legacy FileVault settings.

If Leopard is going to welcome Windows to the Mac, ... The FileVault automatic encryption technology could definitely stand to be more reliable and easier to use in OS X 10.5.

New Leopard build released. No, it’s still not finished yet. A new build of Mac OS X v10.5 is released to developers. Is this thing ever … ...

Leopard automatically creates and lists a Guest account in the “Other Accounts” section of the accounts list. The Guest account allows people who do not have a user account to access your Mac.

To do this, make sure you back up your current installation, boot to the Snow Leopard installation disk, and use Disk Utility to destroy your RAID volume, and then restore your backup to the drive.

Both Windows Vista and Mac OS X can encrypt files and protect them from the prying eyes of thieves and snoops. Vista's new BitLocker feature and ...

FileVault is easy to set up and use. However, if you own a Mac that runs on Apple Silicon or has the Apple T2 Security Chip, it already has the FileVault encryption turned on.