MACOS TIPS & TRICKS
Encrypt your Time Machine backups Apple offers different ways to manage Time Machine encryption for local and network backups. Glenn Fleishman reports
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oncerned about your Mac’s start-up SSD or hard disk drive falling into someone else’s hands? Encrypting the start-up volume prevents access to that drive unless they know an account’s
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password or, in some cases, possess the correct hardware to unlock the contents. Apple automatically enables drive encryption for the start-up volume on any Intel Mac with a T2 Security Chip and on all M1-based Macs. For other
