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If you care about your privacy, don't use Safe Sleep
Authored by: lincd0 on Mar 06, '07 05:30:41PM

Disabling Safe Sleep should be the first thing you do on any new Mac. It writes your passwords and everything else in memory out to disk in the clear, where they're trivial to recover. It's appalling that Apple enables this by default and doesn't give naive users any warning of the risk, even when they turn on FileVault. Safe Sleep completely negates the effect of FileVault and most other forms of encryption.



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