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Re:Ask HN: How do you secure your Mac? by umairmehmood on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @11:40AM (#19683517)
How does FireVault work with Google cloud ?. I have a google cloud folder which is synced with my local drive. Now if I enable Firevault, it will encrypt all the data... but im not sure what will happen to the Google Drive folder on mac. How will google drive manage my encryption then.
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Re:Ask HN: How do you secure your Mac? by mijkal on Thursday April 18, 2019 @12:56AM (#19688826)
FileVault is encryption at the disk level; you unlock at startup. Unless you have other encryption methods for files or directories, once you're logged in, they are unencrypted as far as Google Drive or any other app sees it.
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Re:Ask HN: How do you secure your Mac? by umairmehmood on Thursday April 18, 2019 @04:53AM (#19689677)
Ah thanks. that helps.
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