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Time Capsule, What About Security?

Started by Fred Brunel · 3 months ago

Time Capsule is out and ready to be shipped. Time Capsule is a new wireless backup device from Apple. It combines an Airport base station and a big hard-drive to use with Time Machine.



I love wireless, and everything that can remove the clutter from my desktop. Time Capsule seems to be ... Continue reading »

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  • I thought the data is encrypted?

  • Time Machine backups are non encrypted. But I don't know if files stored on Time Capsule can be encrypted (using Filevault or something like that).

  • In the case then, you can still use FileVault (system preferences) to encrypt files.

  • Actually, from what I've read so far, Time Capsule won't backup FileVault filesystems; actually Time Machine itself is not really FileVault friendly. IMO that's a big issue.

  • Yipes that's an unnecessary compromise for a small convenience. I'm sure that finding people's digital treasure troves and geotagging them will become a sport.

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