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Protecting the Home Folder with FileVault

Panther's FileVault feature () finally gives you total security over your sensitive files and applications. Macintosh computers have always had security, but there were ways to get around it. That was before Panther came up with FileVault. FileVault gives you the ability to encrypt the files in your Home folder using password encryption (your log in password). It's so strong, that if you forget your password and don't know the master password, no one is able to open the files—they are lost forever. It's theorized that breaking the FileVault encryption would take a password-guessing program over 100 trillion ...