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10 steps to better secure your Mac laptop from physical data theft
- silentbicycle 18y agoFirst, the article is actually a PDF. http://www.sophos.com/security/technical-papers/mac-data-theft.pdf http://www.sophos.com/security/technical-papers/mac-data-the... Some of these are of pretty questionable utility in the case of physical data theft -- if someone has already stolen your laptop, they can extract the hard drive and read it directly. An automatic logout with password after a couple minutes isn't going to help much. The important ones are to encrypt the personal data filesystem (which alone will cover almost everything but physical theft) and the swap file (which will make sure passwords in memory aren't swapped to disk in the clear). Also, note that encrypting the entire drive is counterproductive, as it would provide a large corpus for a known plaintext attack (and probably make booting really annoying). Not that any of this is Mac-specific, of course.