12. Securing and Protecting Your iMac
In this chapter, you learn the steps that you can take to secure your iMac and its data, including:
→ Keeping passwords in Keychain
→ Encrypting your account data
→ Activating the Mountain Lion firewall
→ Backing up your files and information
→ Using Time Machine to restore backups
→ Accessing previous file versions
Security on a computer is important—increasingly we store our lives on our computers. We save our memories, our music and video, and our important documents. Having a computer stolen (or losing the contents of your hard drive) can be more traumatic ...
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