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<blockquote data-quote="technologist" data-source="post: 999166" data-attributes="member: 4134">Which is why you should use the security features that are built in, and not try to rig up your own. Because when you do, you'll spend a lot more time and effort, but you'll do a lousy job of it.The security features in OS X (User accounts, the Guest account, Fast User Switching, Screensaver passwords) are built in. They're already there, you just turn them on and use them. Really, really, easy. You don't have to be a &quot;robot&quot; or a paranoid CIA agent. Just flip them on and forget them. All you have to remember is your password, which you have to remember anyway.People seem to think that it must be easier to use bad security than to use good security. It must be easier to do it all yourself than to use what others have done for you. This is wrong. You'll end up as confused as the OP, trying to build from scratch what people have been working on for forty years now and wondering why it doesn't work right.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="technologist, post: 999166, member: 4134"] Which is why you should use the security features that are built in, and not try to rig up your own. Because when you do, you'll spend a lot more time and effort, but you'll do a lousy job of it. The security features in OS X (User accounts, the Guest account, Fast User Switching, Screensaver passwords) are built in. They're already there, you just [i]turn them on and use them[/i]. Really, really, easy. You don't have to be a "robot" or a paranoid CIA agent. Just flip them on and forget them. All you have to remember is your password, which you have to remember anyway. People seem to think that it must be easier to use bad security than to use good security. It must be easier to do it all yourself than to use what others have done for you. This is wrong. You'll end up as confused as the OP, trying to build from scratch what people have been working on for forty years now and wondering why it doesn't work right. [/QUOTE]

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