Should I encrypt my hard drive?

0	I have a fairly new Macbook Pro, and I'm a bit paranoid. It is my work computer, and there's some sensitive data on it. I'd like to make sure that if anyone got it, that my data would be safe. What should I do? security harddrive mac asked Jul 12 '11 at 15:57 thisismcgregor 1●2●2●3

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You're paranoid, you have sensitive information and you want it to be safe. Urmm, encrypt it!!

answered Jul 12 '11 at 16:00

DazOwen
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Best service for encrypting in Mac OS X? I've heard of truecrypt but, is there a better alternative? I've heard people using "two layers" worth of encryption.

(Jul 12 '11 at 16:04) thisismcgregor

TrueCrypt is what I would recommend, it's a very powerful piece of software. So long as the encryption is strong then there is no need for two layers.

(Jul 12 '11 at 16:11) DazOwen

0	No..... you obviously send all the sensitive data to your boss and all your coworkers so you won't have a need to encrypt it. answered Jul 12 '11 at 16:05 Gary 1.2k●25●35●51 He still has the data on his hard drive, though. (Jul 12 '11 at 16:09) DazOwen

I use True Crypt, not about being paranoid just careful and secure.

answered Jul 12 '11 at 16:28

Xiro
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how do you keep your computer encrypted? Like, say I encrypted my entire hard drive today, would it continue to add files to the encrypted hard drive as I used it? Or do I need to continually encrypt it?

(Jul 12 '11 at 19:06) thisismcgregor

With True Crypt I have the entire hard drive encrypted and once I sign in using a ridiculous long password. Everything I place on my drive from then out is secure. I have also done a true crypt container, which I have also stored files on, even a combo of both if you want some files extra secure while logged in.

(Jul 12 '11 at 20:09) Xiro

When you're using this, can you send E-mails with attachments without trouble or do you have to decrypt then send?

(Jul 12 '11 at 20:18) FizzNakLe

I can do everything the same way as always once I am logged in, protects anyone from being able access your system/drive when powered on. When turned on True Crypt asks for your password, so if you power down your system and someone was trying to access your system it would prove most difficult (always need a strong password). To date I have not read about anyone being able to break the encryption. Of course if it is just some common criminal that most likely just want the machine and would just wipe the drive.

I have my system secure just because it is the way I like things.

(Jul 12 '11 at 20:29) Xiro

Thanks for the info Xiro. This is what I'll do. Did it slow down your system at all?

(Jul 13 '11 at 22:04) thisismcgregor

Nothing I have ever noticed, everything runs great. Just encrypted my netbook again.

(Jul 14 '11 at 01:46) Xiro

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