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Does turning on encryption on my MacBook actually prevent le government hackers from being able to spy on me?
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If they have spyware on your computer, they could still see what you're doing. But if they just took your computer, they couldn't crack the encryption and see what's on it.
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>>55228740
Yes... make sure you enable incognito mode too.
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>>55228740
>Mac
ayylmao
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No. Disk encryption is for physical attacks, not virtual ones.

>>55229471

So glad my ASUS doesn't have that garbage.
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>>55228740

no one gives a fuck about your hentai and "painless suicide" search history
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>>55228740
> Does turning on encryption on my MacBook actually prevent le government hackers from being able to spy on me?
Lel, even that ISIS guy from tumblr said that they changed any apple technology because it was compromised.

Your best bet is to choose another hardware vendor and choose a thinkpad or elitebook pre 2008 if you don't care about performance. Then install your OS in a headless luks mbr partitioned disk.
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>get email saying someone in china tried to log into my email
do i need to be worried?
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>>55232450

yeah but only care if they get in
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