On this page, click the Turn Off button. If prompted for an administrator password, enter it and hit the Turn Off Encryption button. FileVault will begin decrypting files on your Mac.

You should also pay a visit to Safari > Settings > Privacy and make sure "Prevent cross-site tracking" and "Hide IP address from tracking" are both enabled to help defeat web trackers. You can also ...

Apple Computer Inc.’s secure encryption technology ... be logged out of Panther while the files in your Home folder are encrypted — the reverse process happens when you turn off FileVault.

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 ...

Once FileVault is set up and working, you should notice it in only two ways. First, if you like to login automatically, FileVault turns that setting off (which makes sense from a security point of ...