M1 mac, is filevault needed?
This article says that the M1 HW disk encryption is pointless, and that it can be trivially bypassed without password using the recovery "share disk". I.e. anyone who steals you mac can access all the data.
While I find this hard to believe, other people also say you need file vault to make M1 macs secure from thieves.
When I configured my M1 from scratch, I dont remember it asking anything about filevault. If it had I would have enabled it, as its pretty mandatory on older macs to guard against theft.
so the question is, can a thief easily access the M1 data if it has disk encryption alone, or do we need to also put filefault on top?
If the disk encryption is not bypassable (e.g. it needs your password to put it in the M1 equivalent of target mode, aka SMB share), then why would anyone use file vault as well?
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