Isn’t this normally stored on an encrypted volume anyway? If the user cares about security even in the slightest, they’d be using FileVault, of course So reall

Isn’t this normally stored on an encrypted volume anyway? If the user cares about security even in the slightest, they’d be using FileVault, of course So really, this type of encryption is defeating scanning/probing, not a dedicated attacker who knows where to look and why. In such cases the attacker is worried about gaining access to the walled garden first — where the protections are.