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Re:Apple has shut down the first fully-functional Mac OS X r... by mikeash on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @05:34PM (#11249348)
OS X inherits nothing from FreeBSD that would prevent a program intentionally executed by the user from encrypting that user's files.

Apple's sandboxing technology is supposed to prevent this, but sandboxing is optional on the Mac.

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