Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Securing a Mac Laptop

David Blatner wrote What I Learned from Having My Laptop Stolen with lots of tips for a mac laptop owner. I should probably do more of these. The premise is that losing the hardware is painful but is just money. Losing the data means you need a good backup. I'm using Time Machine and am ok with that. The third and usually forgotten part is the loss of privacy as now someone else has your data. While he doesn't go to the extent of using FileVault to encrypt everything, he does turn off auto-login and requires a password to wake from sleep and sets a firmware password to prevent booting from a disc.

No comments: