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Gain access to a locked Mac with Recovery Assistant

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://eclecticlight.co/2025/10/22/gain-access-to-a-locked-mac-with-recovery-assistant/

<p>All of us at some time or other find our mind has gone blank and we can’t remember the password we’ve typed in so often before. Or the person who did know that password may no longer be there to recall it for us. At times like these we may need to gain access to a locked Mac. This article looks at how you can do that in an Intel Mac with a T2 chip, or an Apple silicon Mac, running Big Sur or later, in particular macOS Tahoe. If you want information for an older Mac or macOS, <a href="https://eclecticlight.co/2022/01/18/did-someone-forget-their-password-getting-access-to-a-locked-mac/">this article</a> should be more helpful.</p>
<h4>Keyboard</h4>
<p>If you’re certain you entered the correct password but it was refused, check the Caps Lock key isn’t on, and check the Mac is using the correct language keyboard in the menu at the top right.</p>
<h4>Firmware password (Intel only)</h4>
<p>Intel Macs can be protected using a firmware password set and removed in Recovery, and that can normally only be removed if you know the password. If you don’t, the most reliable way to achieve this is to take the Mac to an Apple store, together with proof of purchase or ownership, and ask them to remove the firmware password.</p>
<p>Further information is in this <a href="https://support.apple.com/HT204455" rel="noopener" target="_blank">support note</a>, and in <a href="https://mrmacintosh.com/how-to-remove-mac-firmware-password-new-way-if-you-have-a-2018-2020-t

macOS 26 Tahoeでは、macOSセットアップ時にAppleアカウントにサインインすると自動的にFileVaultがONになるので注意を。
https://applech2.com/archives/20251021-macos-26-tahoe-filevault-turn-on-automatically.html

#applech2 #macOS_26_Tahoe #FileVault #MacBook_Pro #macOS #macOS_26 #OpenSSH #Tahoe #Tahoeの新機能 #アップデート

Explainer: FileVault

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://eclecticlight.co/2025/10/18/explainer-filevault-2/

<p>It has been 22 years since Apple’s first version of FileVault was introduced in Mac OS X 10.3 Panther. Since then it has changed beyond all recognition, and has been transformed from a questionable option to an essential feature of Apple silicon Macs. This article explains those changes, and how enabling FileVault is now a no-brainer.</p>
<h4>The past</h4>
<p>FileVault 1 was very different. For a start, it didn’t attempt to encrypt whole volumes, as that still isn’t built into HFS+ and only became possible in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, when Apple added a logical volume manager, Core Storage. So this first effort stored your Home folder in an encrypted disk image, something that also proved easy to crack.</p>
<p><span class="alignnone"><img alt="filevault2004" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-83067" height="1200" src="https://eclecticlight.co/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/filevault2004.jpg" width="1600" /></span></p>
<p>Apple’s second attempt at FileVault proved more successful, with Core Storage handling the encryption of whole HFS+ volumes. This required encryption and decryption to be performed in software, in the days when most CPUs didn’t have instructions to accelerate that. When you first enabled FileVault, macOS had to encrypt the entire contents of the boot volume, which before Catalina included the whole of the system as well as user data. Fortunately, Apple engineered this initial encryption to run in the background while you were still usi

macOS Tahoe agrega desbloqueo remoto para FileVault mediante SSH

#macOSTahoe #FileVault #MacSecurity #macOSSecurity

https://mecambioamac.com/macos-tahoe-agrega-desbloqueo-remoto-para-filevault-mediante-ssh/

Varios cambios significativos de macOS Tahoe 26 y FileVault

#macOSTahoe #macOSSecurity #FileVault

https://mecambioamac.com/varios-cambios-significativos-de-macos-tahoe-26-y-filevault/

🌖 macOS 上的 SSH 與 FileVault 密碼解鎖功能
➤ 在 FileVault 鎖定下，透過 SSH 遠端解鎖 macOS 資料磁碟區的技術解析
✤ https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/apple_ssh_and_filevault.7.html
macOS 的 FileVault 全碟加密功能會在系統啟動過程中鎖定資料磁碟區，直到使用者輸入密碼進行驗證。這項功能原本會阻斷 SSH 和其他依賴資料磁碟區的服務。然而，macOS 26 Tahoe 版本引入了一項新功能，允許使用者透過 SSH 進行密碼驗證，即使在資料磁碟區被鎖定時也能遠端解鎖。此功能讓系統管理員能在啟動初期，透過網路遠端解鎖 Mac 裝置，進而啟用完整的 SSH 存取和其他服務。
+ 這對於管理遠端 Mac 裝置的 IT 管理員來說真是太方便了！再也不用擔心開機後無法立即遠端登入。
+ 瞭解這個機制對於資安規劃很重要，可以避免在不安全的環境下意外暴露 SSH。
#macOS #SSH #FileVault #安全性 #遠端管理

Apple: SSH and FileVault

https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/apple_ssh_and_filevault.7.html

#HackerNews #Apple #SSH #FileVault #Security #Tech #News

Achtung! Der frühe #Vogel fängt den #Bug ;)

#Apple #MacOS 26 #Tahoe aktiviert ungefragt #Filevault (Festplattenverschlüsselung).
Bei unserem #Remote #Mac #Server ist damit nach einem Neustart kein Zugriff mehr möglich per #Bildschirmfreigabe.

Jetzt gehe ich mal los und organisiere irgendwo einen Monitor und Maus und Tastatur... nur um mich anzumelden und Filevault wieder zu deaktivieren... ;)

https://www.apple.com/de/os/macos/

10 Tipps: So schützt ihr euren älteren Mac vor Bedrohungen und Malware
Auch ältere Macs lassen sich mit passenden Maßnahmen weiterhin zuverlässig gegen Malware und Bedrohungen absichern. Hier findet ihr alle wichtigen Tipps, um euer Gerät
https://www.apfeltalk.de/magazin/news/10-tipps-so-schuetzt-ihr-euren-aelteren-mac-vor-bedrohungen-und-malware/
#Mac #News #Antivirus #Apple #Backup #Datenschutz #FileVault #Mac #Malware #Passwort #Sicherheit #Updates #VPN #ZweiFaktorAuthentifizierung

FileVault: как Apple превратила шифрование диска в незаметную магию

Что общего между ноутбуком, украденным из кафе, и многомиллионными потерями компаний? Незащищенные данные. Разбираемся, как Apple решила эту проблему раз и навсегда. В 2003 году первая технология шифрования FileVault в Mac OS X Panther тормозила систему, защищала только домашнюю папку и работала через костыли. В 2025 году шифрование работает на аппаратном уровне настолько незаметно, что забываешь о его существовании. Как Apple удалось превратить FileVault из «той штуки, которую лучше не включать» в незаменимую технологию безопасности современных Mac? Давайте разберём эту эволюцию.

https://habr.com/ru/companies/ringo_mdm/articles/932370/

#filevault #безопасность_данных #Шифрование_диска #Аппаратное_шифрование #Secure_Enclave #XTSAES #Apple_Mac #MDM #Apple_Silicon #Информационная_безопасность

Die verschiednen Apple-Sicherheitsstufen zum Schutz Deiner Daten
Die Sicherheit persönlicher Daten steht für viele Nutzer:innen im Zentrum digitaler Technologien. Apple fokussiert dies
https://www.apfeltalk.de/magazin/news/die-verschiednen-apple-sicherheitsstufen-zum-schutz-deiner-daten/
#iPhone #Mac #News #AppSicherheit #Apple #BootROM #Datenschutz #FileVault #Gerteverwaltung #HomeKit #iCloud #iMessage #iPhone #KernelIntegrity #Netzwerk #SecureEnclave #Sicherheitskonzept #Verschlsselung

My daughter has a friend whose sibling is no longer alive, as of recently. The family wants to access their MacBook Pro which is password protected. It's a fairly recent model, apparently, and it's unclear whether the disk is encrypted -- prob safe to assume it is (?).

Is there something Apple can/will do to help the family gain access, given proof of the situation?

#Apple #macOS #Mac #filesystem #encryption #FileVault #password #access

macOS Tahoe impose FileVault et stocke la clé sur iCloud http://dlvr.it/TLbFp1 #macOS #FileVault

📊 ОПРОС
Каким средствам криптографии вы доверяете?

#криптография #шифрование #VeraCrypt #BitLocker #FileVault #LUKS #PGP #GPG #OpenPGP #GnuPG #privacy #crypto #cryptography #encryption #InfoSec #ИБ #кибербезопасность #информационнаябезопасность

"Linux has been supporting Full Disk Encryption (FDE) and technologies such as UEFI SecureBoot and TPMs for a long time. However, the way they are set up by most distributions is not as secure as they should be, and in some ways quite frankly weird. In fact, right now, your data is probably more secure if stored on current ChromeOS, Android, Windows or MacOS devices, than it is on typical Linux distributions."

https://0pointer.net/blog/authenticated-boot-and-disk-encryption-on-linux.html

#Linux #luks #Bitlocker #filevault

Why does #macos keep telling me I have a new #filevault key every single time I update :(
I even disabled and re-enabled filevault encryption multiple times T.T

#apple what are you hiding 📷

@devontechnologies Is there any point in encrypting a #DEVONthink database stored on a single-user #FileVault-enabled #Mac and synced via (end-to-end encrypted) #iCloud?

Gah! Just discovered that remote desktop with #VNC to a #Mac is not possible if the user is logged out (e.g. after booting up) while #Filevault is enabled. VERY inconvenient.

Have you run into this, @mjtsai, and did you have another solution than disabling Filevault? Apple Remote Desktop probably works, but that's too much for my modest needs. (I also see only now that the 10 Gb ethernet variant of the M1 Mini is different! It has Lights Out Management.)

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254108177