If you do a restore by entering the recovery partition on boot will it ask for the password? I don't want someone to steal my notebook and get easy access to the restore partition. What ever I can do to make it harder for a thief is good.
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Restore Question
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The recovery partition won't be prompted for a password, but you could set the firmware password
Use a firmware password on your Mac
Of course if you forget what the password is, you're pretty much sunk on fixing the machine.
To protect your data, use FileVault to encrypt your data
Use a firmware password on your Mac
Of course if you forget what the password is, you're pretty much sunk on fixing the machine.
To protect your data, use FileVault to encrypt your data
There isn't much of anything you can do from the restore partition apart from, well, restoring.
You'd still need a password to get into any account.
And, no offense, but honestly, you're not likely to be important nor interesting enough for a thief to bother snooping through your stuff. Most thiefs are simply looking for a quick sale and are very likely to just check everything runs and put the thing up on craigslist.