Mac Security: Privacy

At the very least, losing your wallet to a thief is a major pain in the neck: you lose your cash and (possibly) some precious mementos, and you have to cancel your credit cards and replace your driver’s license. More seriously, the thief could steal your identity, using your personal information to make purchases, get loans, or cause you all kinds of grief by pretending to be you.

All that and more could also happen if your Mac’s data were to fall into the wrong hands.

Privacy software addresses concerns like these by making sure that any confidential information you keep on your computer or send across the Net can be seen only by you and the people you designate. In most cases, that means using some form of encryption.