The FileVault security system, introduced many years ago to macOS, prevents someone from starting up or restarting your computer and gaining access to its startup volume, which is encrypted.

Encryption is ubiquitous in modern computing, from the padlock icon in a web browser showing a secure connection to the end-to-end encryption in WhatsApp. If these exchanges are worth protecting (and ...

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Microsoft is criticized for giving authorities access to SSD encryption. Apple has fixed the problem in FileVault – starting with macOS 26 Tahoe. Following reports that Microsoft, under court order, ...