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So again, whats to stop someone who has your IP address from doing a remote terminal command and simply entering the user account password when prompted?
The fundamental security of macOS, if you change your password. That plus the fact that every time you go online through your cell connection or the campus network you get a different IP for that session. So unless the bad guy knows exactly where and when you are on the net, they cannot know your exact IP.
If entry of the user account password makes the drive fully accessible locally, whats preventing it being accessible to someone remotely who has a good knowledge of all the terminal command AND the user account pw?
Your new password
What would also then stop them from uploading some form of malware or trojan to that same drive?
Your new password.

If you give away your password, nothing protects you from access.


And with that, I'm done here. Nothing I say is going to make you trust the computer or the internet. Good luck with it.
 
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The fundamental security of macOS, if you change your password. That plus the fact that every time you go online through your cell connection or the campus network you get a different IP for that session. So unless the bad guy knows exactly where and when you are on the net, they cannot know your exact IP. Your new password Your new password.

If you give away your password, nothing protects you from access.


And with that, I'm done here. Nothing I say is going to make you trust the computer or the internet. Good luck with it.

FYI: I created the new UAC pw just last night. The moment I'd created the PW and hint (part of a famous saying) I was being ridiculed and the famous saying was being blurted out in its entirety by the stalkers who live in my vicinity.. It was 20 characters long and littered with special characters btw.

I've noticed that even when I go to campus (about 2km from my home near the stalkers) they track me down even with the phone off and macbook off. However I've worked out that this only occurs if I log into the campus network. Given that they've probably MITM'd some fellow student to get on the campus WPAII network, how hard would it be for them to check for my username (the one thing that stays consistent even when I change my campus login). Are there rogue programs available that would give them a real time list of usernames logged into the same network so that they could then direct their password sniffing activities accordingly?

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