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Securing sensitive data

Securing sensitive data from access by others, and safeguarding it from loss of damage, is common. Solutions range from encrypted images to specialist external disks.

December 29, 2020 Macs, Technology

Prepare your Mac for service

What to do, when you can, before taking or sending your Mac in for service or repair. What about FileVault? And Activation Lock?

December 28, 2019 Macs, Technology

Prepare your Mac for service/repair, and restore it later

Don’t just throw it in a box and send it off: what happens if its internal storage is replaced or wiped? What about protecting sensitive files? Does a T2 chip make this difficult?

December 13, 2018 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Can you keep a secret?

If privacy is a fundamental human right, should we also have access to the private data held on our Macs? Tim Cook’s 4 principles are starting points for debate, and Apple needs to discuss more than to dictate.

October 28, 2018 Macs, Technology

Can you trust Lynda.com or LinkedIn?

Do you use Lynda.com or LinkedIn? Have your personal data been breached? You might like to check, and reconsider your use of their services.

December 18, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

Last Week on my Mac: The fate of Yahoo!

There can surely be no greater shame to any custodian of personal details that most of them have been stolen, and that it has taken around three years to discover and admit to that theft.

December 18, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

Last Week on my Mac: a tragedy to freedom in two Acts

How hard-won freedoms are being taken away by lies, stealth, and guile. A warning to other democracies.

December 4, 2016 General, Life, Macs, Technology

iCloud, Spotlight, and Time Machine

When you keep documents in iCloud, are they backed up in Time Machine, searched in Spotlight, and kept securely?

November 14, 2016 Macs, Technology

Brexit and data protection in the UK

The EU is changing to new data protection regulations in 2018. How might Brexit complicate that? Roadmaps provided.

August 5, 2016 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Firmware passwords: a mixed blessing

Coupled with FileVault’s whole disk encryption, this can stop others from accessing your data. But there are disadvantages too.

July 1, 2016 Macs, Technology

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