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Obviously, you wouldn't do this on a Macbook, and not just because the battery is not removable. IIRC FileVault stores a "forgot my disk" password with iCloud,

Obviously, you wouldn't do this on a Macbook, and not just because the battery is not removable. IIRC FileVault stores a "forgot my disk" password with iCloud, which is likely subject to subpoena. That assumes there's no law enforcement/nation-state investigative service backdoor in FileVault. The built-in, OS level disk encryption is likely insufficient, so why use a Mac at all here? You could just offboard the footage to a machine running a Free version of Linux running LUKS and then after shooting and in a secure location and manner give the files to somebody to do the video editing on the Mac.

Bud 10y ago
No, that's not correct. FileVault does not store any password with iCloud unless you tell it to. Otherwise, it generates a 24-character password that you have to write down, and that is the only key, other than the user's password, of course. The disk encryption is actually quite adequate on a Mac. We also have no evidence of any backdoors in the encryption in Apple products, and quite a bit of recent evidence that there are no such backdoors.
- cuckcuckspruce 10y ago
  Take a look at Snowden, Poitras, and Greenwald's communications and the recording of the footage for Citizenfour as an example here. They had all already stopped relying on any closed system to keep their communications secure. They were all using Tails to communicate through Tor without leaving a minimal unencrypted footprint. At the point where you are relying on Tor to communicate and are explicitly using Tails to keep your communication secret then why would you start relying on a Macbook, running a proprietary OS, with non-open crypto, to hold your secrets if you're already scared the neo-Stazi are going to break down the door and steal your unlocked, decrypted Linux machine that you have all of the trust in the world in? For that reason alone you would skip the Mac.
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Bud 10y ago

No, that's not correct. FileVault does not store any password with iCloud unless you tell it to. Otherwise, it generates a 24-character password that you have to write down, and that is the only key, other than the user's password, of course. The disk encryption is actually quite adequate on a Mac. We also have no evidence of any backdoors in the encryption in Apple products, and quite a bit of recent evidence that there are no such backdoors.

cuckcuckspruce 10y ago
Take a look at Snowden, Poitras, and Greenwald's communications and the recording of the footage for Citizenfour as an example here. They had all already stopped relying on any closed system to keep their communications secure. They were all using Tails to communicate through Tor without leaving a minimal unencrypted footprint. At the point where you are relying on Tor to communicate and are explicitly using Tails to keep your communication secret then why would you start relying on a Macbook, running a proprietary OS, with non-open crypto, to hold your secrets if you're already scared the neo-Stazi are going to break down the door and steal your unlocked, decrypted Linux machine that you have all of the trust in the world in? For that reason alone you would skip the Mac.
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