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Re:Apple removes first-party firewall exemption in macOS 11.... by La1n on Thursday January 14, 2021 @05:19AM (#25774609)
Most users probably also didn't care about the first-party firewall exemptions. They could have asked people if they wanted a separate password for disk encryption (e.g. a small checkbox).
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Re:Apple removes first-party firewall exemption in macOS 11.... by fpoling on Thursday January 14, 2021 @01:42PM (#25780328)
It is highly non-trivial to extract private key from Apple encryption chips, last time I heared the price is at least 100K USD, and probably much higher now. So unless one values own secrets that high, a short password could be OK.
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