In the worst case, you might lose considerably more, like your entire photo library or some other 'why the hell did Apple mark this as a bundle' folder.Įven if you just lose the storage since the last backup, that could be a considerable loss, and this assumes that Time Machine is actually backing things up correctly and that no files on your backup drive have exhibited bit rot. No, if true, this qualifies as a showstopper-level flaw, sufficient to get upper management fired.

I can't imagine that even the 'thin über alles' folks at Apple would be THAT stupid. It seems far more likely that somebody changed a connector, and that they don't have the right tools at the various Apple stores yet, which while qualifying as seriously incompetent, is probably a failure of the Apple Store and/or AppleCare management chain, rather than engineering. I would want my laptop to be 100% encrypted, in case i decided to travel to america or something.Īpple laptops have had optional full-disk encryption for seven years, and optional home directory encryption for fifteen years. Moreover, full-disk encryption has been automatic for four years. In no way should you interpret my comments to in any way imply that full-disk encryption itself is inherently risky. It is only the new implementation of FDE that is poorly designed.

In previous hardware iterations, you could copy the underlying encrypted data to an external hard drive using a specially designed cable attached to another computer. #Freefilesync portable chip professional.

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