Even if you add a password back to that account, FileVault will be disabled for that account unless you specifically re-enable it. I'll walk you through the steps.

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 ...

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 ...

To add or change a Mac password, go to System Settings > Users & Groups. Select your login profile and click the Change Password button. To remove a password, ensure FileVault is disabled in ...

With the T2 chip and no FileVault, a Mac will boot to the startup screen, but unless you had the password, even though the drive’s contents are available to a user, you’d have to break into ...

Quick question regarding Lions new FileVault. Let say you have multiple user accounts on the machine, one of which has a very poor password. Does this compromise the whole system? i.e. if someone ...