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531: Rock It in the Right Direction

Accidental Tech Podcast

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How to Encrypt Local Application Data on a Mac

Jesse Wilson: Does Mac OS allow apps to keep encryption keys and data private from one another? Do you use excuse me, any Mac apps that encrypt their local data, John? He says the standard is actually make it encrypted on the disk because that way if you shut down your computer and someone yanks out the SSD chip and tries to read stuff from or whatever, there are many levels of protection. But yes, applications like Rewind can do better than leaving all their data on encrypted on disk.

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