Comments on: Password Protect your Mac

By: How to Tell If Someone Was Using Your Mac

How to Tell If Someone Was Using Your Mac — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 18:35:52 +0000

[...] everyone should always password protect a Mac to prevent unauthorized use, not everyone does. Sometimes people share general logins, be it with a [...]

By: Require a password on waking from sleep, but not when screensaver is active

Require a password on waking from sleep, but not when screensaver is active — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 06:41:17 +0000

[...] you ever wanted to have your Mac require a password on waking from system sleep, but not ask for a password when the screensaver is on or the screen [...]

By: Password Protect Folders & Files in Mac OS X with Encrypted Disk Images

Password Protect Folders & Files in Mac OS X with Encrypted Disk Images — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:30:17 +0000

[...] this along with general password protection for maximum [...]

By: Password Protect Zip Files in Mac OS X

Password Protect Zip Files in Mac OS X — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 22:56:54 +0000

[...] this can provide some protection on a per-file or folder basis, it’s always a good idea to password protect the Mac in general with a login requirement on system boot, wake from sleep, and waking from the screen saver. [...]

By: Saman

Saman — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:15:36 +0000

They dont need to remove the hard drive, they only need to reset the password by booting from OSX Install CD.

Besides, I mentioned that “fake security” might be usefull in environments like office when its not about top secret data, but rather about privacy.

By: Joe @ Learning OS X

Joe @ Learning OS X — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 12:26:38 +0000

I don’t know if I’d consider it “fake” security. There are many instances where having a password protected Mac is a good one.

1 – In an office so people aren’t snooping on your machine after hours
2 – In your home. I have Parental controls setup on my Mac and each child has different settings. My youngest can just click to login and my older two kids have passwords.

I will concede though that a very motivated person is going to be able to steal your machine remove the hard drive and read off the contents of it. If you are that concerned about it turn on the File Vault.

By: Saman

Saman — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 12:12:11 +0000

As mentioned at the bottom of the article, since all those passwords may be resetted any time, this is rather some kinda fake security. Usefull when ur leaving your mac for 3 minutes. If data security is mandatory, go use something encryption based.