[OAW]

Apparently FileVault only protects your documents if you are logged out of your user account. Well with the Instant Wake From Sleep feature on the laptop, I can imagine I'm not the only one who likes the fact that you can have a bunch of apps open at the same time and have instant access to them. No app relaunching and all that. So it seems that in order to user FileVault one would have to log out on a regular basis. I suppose this is OK if you have super sensitive data on your laptop, but I think I will just utilize the password protection on wake from sleep or screensaver and call it a day.

OAW

[Evan DiBiase]

There's an option in the Security preference pane to "[r]equire password to wake this computer from sleep or screen saver." If you combine this with "[d]isable automatic login" in the same pane, your files should be fairly secure under FileVault (assuming it's not busy corrupting them).

[IEEE1394]

Let's say you only had password on wake enabled, and ignored FileVault. If someone were to steal your laptop, removes its hard drive and mount in elsewhere they'd have access to all your files. FileVault prevents this, instead of seeing your files they see an encrypted disk image.

[michaelb]

Originally posted by IEEE1394:
... If someone were to steal your laptop, removes its hard drive and mount in elsewhere they'd have access to all your files...

Or simply plug in a FireWire cable and startup while holding "T" to make it go into target drive mode.

FileVault is the first time I've felt safe leaving my laptop in a car (out of sight of course, but still vulnerable to theft and personal/confidential data falling into the wrong hands).

Maybe now Jennifer Garner will go out with me?!

[iDaver]

Originally posted by michaelb:
Or simply plug in a FireWire cable and startup while holding "T" to make it go into target drive mode.

I thought there was some kind of security feature (before Filevault) that prevented this; not that I know what it is.