Q: Question about safety of local icloud folders
Hi,
If one day, i am very unlucky and if my computer gets stolen, the thieves can take out the Hard Drive and connect it to the Sata reader. If this person connect this Sata Interface to a macintosh, will he be able to read all my files that are locally stored in my Icloud drives?
In Fact, i have seen that the permissions of folders in Icloud are set to EVERYONE = READ.
I can switch all the folders to Everyone : No access. Will it provide me safety? or the only solution would be to encrypt my whole hard drive.
I say it so because i do photocopy of my credit cards and personal papers that i copied on my Icloud drive.
All of your thoughts are welcome.
Thank you.
MacBook, OS X Yosemite (10.10.2), 16Gb
Posted on Mar 25, 2015 5:39 PM
Just thinking about it, i have found a solution for encryption but it is not with Icloud. I also use OneDrive.
So, i have created a 50gb partition with the Disk Utility at the end of my Hard Drive. I called it Vault.
I then ran terminal and i enabled filevault on it using
diskutil cs convert /Volumes/Vault -passphrase 'mypassword'
Then i restarted, it prompted me from the password and asked me to add it my Keychain, which i did.
Then i pointed Onedrive to use this partition to copy my OneDrive contents to this encrypted partition.
Posted on Mar 25, 2015 6:17 PM