When Full-Disk Encryption Goes Wrong

Re:When Full-Disk Encryption Goes Wrong by sigjuice on Friday May 20, 2016 @01:51PM (#11739944)

Sorry for being off-topic: my wife and I had our MacBooks stolen on the weekend and every ten minutes I think why in the hell didn't I have FileVault turned on. Our whole lives were on those laptops and I cannot even fathom what sort of fallout to expect with our data out there.

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Re:When Full-Disk Encryption Goes Wrong by ridgeguy on Friday May 20, 2016 @02:03PM (#11740056)

You probably already know this, but just in case not: If you had Find My Mac enabled on those MacBooks, you can lock or wipe them [1]. I've read somewhere that if you select "lock" first, you can't then do a wipe. Not sure about that, tho. Good Luck.

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204756

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Re:When Full-Disk Encryption Goes Wrong by sigjuice on Friday May 20, 2016 @02:19PM (#11740185)

Yes, I did this the minute I realized what had happened. Both my Macbooks and my iPad are in the "Erase Pending" state. Not sure if I still get notified of the location if the thieves replace or wipe the drives before ever connecting to the Internet.

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Re:When Full-Disk Encryption Goes Wrong by subliminalpanda on Friday May 20, 2016 @02:03PM (#11740055)

If you're lucky they'll just wipe the drive and use it for themselves.

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