[P1] encryption

Mike Beede beede at visi.com
Fri Aug 22 16:34:11 PDT 2003


On Friday, Aug 22, 2003, at 03:33 US/Central, Charles Martin wrote:

> Panther will have user-controllable, automatic home-folder 
> encryption-on-the-fly as one of its features.
>
> If you had this feature turned on, and you logged out of your session 
> and set your iBook down somewhere and a thief picked it up, he could 
> not decrypt your data no matter what.

Is this better than an encrypted volume?  I can't imagine remembering
more than one passcode to cover all my sensitive stuff, but maybe others
are better at that.

Regards,

	Mike



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