11. Securing and Protecting Your MacBook Data
In this chapter, you’ll learn the steps that you can take to secure your MacBook and its data, including
• Creating user accounts
• Applying parental controls
• Keeping passwords in Keychain
• Encrypting your account data
• Activating the Lion firewall
• Backing up your files and information
• Using Time Machine to restore backups
• Accessing previous file fersions
Introduction
Security on a computer is important—especially on a notebook computer. It’s easy for someone to pick up and walk off with a laptop, and a MacBook tops the list of desirable targets. Practicing appropriate account and data security ...
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