I enabled Fire vault when i bought my ibook, thinking this was internet security,.
Wrong. Dave On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Rick Womer<[email protected]> wrote: > > In the land of Winblows XP, one can right-click on a folder, select > "Encrypt", and it is quickly encrypted using one's system password. > Encryption and decryption are transparent; so for example I encrypted my > email files, and they worked just as though they weren't encrypted. When > anyone else logged onto my computer, though, they were just gibberish. > > I cannot find, anywhere, a similar function for Mac OS X. "File Vault" > encrypts the entire account, and makes backing up very difficult. "True > Crypt" does the same. MEO makes self-extracting encrypted archives, but one > has to extract them every time one wants to use them. Disk Utility makes > encrypted images, but one must deliberately open them and close them with > every use. > > So, does anyone know of a transparent, on-the-fly encryption program for Mac? > Or is this the first way I have found that OS X is inferior to Winblows? > > Cheers, > > Rick > > http://photo.net/photos/RickW > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
