FileVault is OS X's built-in data encryption technology, and when enabled, as with an unencrypted OS X volume you simply enter your account credentials to get into your system. However, given Apple ...

Apple’s first pass at built-in encryption was, frankly, terrible. The original FileVault, introduced with 10.3 Panther in 2003, only encrypted a user’s home directory, and had a number of functional ...

We’ve been uniformly negative about FileVault, the new security feature that Apple added to Mac OS X 10.3 Panther, but that doesn’t mean we dislike the idea of protecting sensitive data. The problem ...

If you keep a lot of valuable information on your Mac, encrypting it will help you keep the data safe. Apple’s built-in FileVault disk encryption on macOS is an effective way to do this. But what ...

Apple can be crafty. Just ask Google. But I’m not here to write about corporation-on-corporation smackdowns. Rather, I’m referring to a Mac OS X trick that pairs FileVault 2 with iCloud’s Find My Mac ...

Apple's FileVault technology is a method of automatically encrypting your files so you do not have to worry about data theft should your system be stolen. In its first iteration FileVault was just ...

When Mac OS X 10.7 Lion introduced full disk encryption, called FileVault 2, it was a huge improvement over the original FileVault, which only encrypts a user’s home folder. And because of the ...

FileVault 2 is a feature of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion that provides a way to encrypt a full disk drive so that it can only be used by those who know a password ... until now, that is. Passware, a company ...

Confession time here. I formed my opinion of Apple’s FileVault encryption feature a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, and if you think back to those days (Mac OS X 10.3 Panther!), you’ll ...