How to encrypt your Mac with FileVault 2, and why you absolutely should

Macworld
Feb 5, 2015, 6:46 am1.1k ptsHot
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 and implementation problems. FileVault 2 appeared in 2011 with 10.7 Lion, and had almost nothing to do with the…

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