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Re:Apple security blunder exposes Lion login passwords in cl... by jwr on Sunday May 06, 2012 @02:20PM (#3935812)
I used it for many years, so did many people I know. Never got any "impressions" about it. It had its (many) flaws, but worked fine for me and was certainly better than no encryption at all.
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Re:Apple security blunder exposes Lion login passwords in cl... by tptacek on Sunday May 06, 2012 @02:26PM (#3935835)
UNCLE. I'm wrong. People used homedir Filevault.

I stand by (most of) my original comment.

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Re:Apple security blunder exposes Lion login passwords in cl... by nnnnnnnn on Sunday May 06, 2012 @04:04PM (#3936142)
"and was certainly better than no encryption at all."

Evidently not!

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