When you log into a FileVault-enabled account, the Recovery Disk OS takes your account password and uses that to unlock the encryption key that protects the startup volume. It’s loaded into ...

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 ...

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Apple has released OS X Lion 10.7.4. The update includes performance improvements as well as a bunch of fixes, including the FileVault bug that was recently widely covered across the Web.

Several readers have asked recently about what to do with systems they’ve purchased, inherited, or were given to them that were protected by FileVault and the original owner can’t recall or ...

This, however, is next level, so maybe don’t set your password as emoji. If you’re on OS X El Capitan, Apple actually banned the ability to set an emoji password, but it still works on Yosemite.