Most users just need a folder or two encrypted, with the ability to move them to another comptuer, not their entire drives encrypted in a unmovable state.Īlso the advatage of having something like a Iron Key is that one has the files off their computer and can easily and quickly dispose of the Iron Key in a rapid manner smashing it with a hard large rock for instance and spreading the pieces around at random, or burying it in the ground for another, try doing that with a computer. And since most all of those super secure networks are not on the internet, makes it inaccessible to most users anyway.
Military and Government parnoid level total drive encryption is overkill for most regular users needs as they don't access super secure networks that require it. This way if something goes wrong, the files are either off the machine or the drive can be accessed and the encrypted files/folders transferred to another Mac, decryption software installed and the correct password used to decrypt the files. It's better for most users to leave Filevault alone and either use a Iron Key or individual file/folder encryption software on just the items they need.
The government snoops would be screaming if they knew this was possible.įilevault is a complete waste of time and effort for most users, it hogs CPU cycles, slows down one's machine and disables recovery options if OS X fails to boot as one can't decrypt the image and simply recover files using a alternative means (like Firewire Target Disk Mode for instance) If the Lion Recovery Partition allowed a unlocking of a Filevault drive, means that that code could be easily cloned, altered and used to crack any Mac with Filevault with a simple USB key. The Lion Recovery Partition is just a tiny program on a partition, the window asking for your password shouldn't have appeared at all. This is a very secure and limited access state intentional to supply the security provided. The object of Filevault is so that no access is possible via any other means except the secure path laid out with a fully running OS X to ensure your data is secure.
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