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LifeHacker- How To Break Into a Mac…And Prevent It From Happening-> To YOU

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For the record, this has NOTHING to do with "hackintosh" machines, and therefore, discussions about it shall remain off of this thread per forum rules.

How to Break Into a Mac (And Prevent It from Happening to You)



As for me personally, my Mac is Kensington-locked to a non-movable desk. I turn the screen off or engage the screensaver- this instantly locks the computer. I'm afraid to use FileVault because I have a nasty habit of forgetting passwords that I don't change often (I often change my user password on several things)- I also use a combination of numbers, letters and symbols- and I make it quite long.
 
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As a precaution do not advocate the use of FileVault. Folk forget the password and that leads to huge problems that not even the install DVD will get you out of.
 
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harryb2448 said:
As a precaution do not advocate the use of FileVault. Folk forget the password and that leads to huge problems that not even the install DVD will get you out of.
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Hence why I said I'm afraid of using it. I don't like it, but I don't really need it.
 
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Paranoid much?
 
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Chris H. said:
As for me personally, my Mac is Kensington-locked to a non-movable desk.
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Those are pretty much useless, just throwing that out there.
 
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The joys of having a locked office...
 
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schweb said:
Those are pretty much useless, just throwing that out there.
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True, but it does slow thieves down (provided they don't have a method of cutting the cable).
 

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