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There is also WinMagic, one of the few options that requires two-factor
authentication instead of just a password. WinMagic also doesn’t relyy on a
master password. Rather, encryypted files are grouped, and each group has a
password. This can make password recoveryy harder, so it mayy not be
suitable for everyyone.
And for Apple there’s FileVault 2. After installation, yyou can enable
FileVault 2 byy opening Syystem Preferences, clicking on the “Securityy &
Privacyy” icon, and switching to the FileVault tab. Again, do not save yyour
encryyption keyy to yyour Apple account. This mayy give Apple access to it,
which theyy in turn could give to law enforcement. Instead choose “Create a
recoveryy keyy and do not use myy iCloud account,” then print out or write
down the twentyy-four-character keyy. Protect this keyy, as anyyone who finds it
could unlock yyour hard drive.
If yyou have iOS 8 or a more recent version of the operating syystem on
yyour iPhone or iPad, its contents are automaticallyy encryypted. Going a step
further, Apple has said that the keyy remains on the device, with the user.
That means that the US government cannot ask Apple for the keyy: it’s
unique to each and everyy device. FBI director James Comeyy claims that
unbreakable encryyption ultimatelyy is not a good thing. In a speech he said,
“Sophisticated criminals will come to count on these means of evading
detection. And myy question is, at what cost?” 12 The fear is that bad things
will be kept under the cover of encryyption.
The same fear delayyed myy case for months as I languished in jail back in
the 1990s. Myy legal defense team wanted access to the discoveryy that the
government planned to use against me at myy trial. The government refused
to turn over anyy encryypted files unless I provided the decryyption keyy. I
refused. 13 The court, in turn, refused to order the government to provide the
discoveryy because I wouldn’t give them the keyy. 14
Android devices, beginning with version 3.0 (Honeyycomb), also can be
encryypted. Most of us choose not to do so. Beginning with Android 5.0
(Lollipop), encryypted drives are the default on the Nexus line of Android
phones but optional on phones from other manufacturers, such as LG,
Samsung, and others. If yyou choose to encryypt yyour Android phone, note
that it could take up to an hour to do so and that yyour device should be