http://www.pctipsbox.com/5-easy-to-follow-tips-to-enhance-your-macs-security/ Tips Tricks Central Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:03:08 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.pctipsbox.com/5-easy-to-follow-tips-to-enhance-your-macs-security/comment-page-1/#comment-11027 Paxswill Fri, 24 Oct 2008 02:50:01 +0000 http://www.pctipsbox.com/?p=1809#comment-11027 The Terminal command at the beginning is over complicating things. All of those services can be accessed in System Preferences=>Sharing, with no Terminal Access. That being said, not all sharing is bad. I do try to keep my services to a minimum, as in addition to possibly opening up holes, they use up battery. And encrypting your home folder is kinda sucky. It's a performance hit, a usability hit (ever try recovering file from a corrupted Home folder?), and the security is ineffective if someone gets you computer. A better choice would be to have an encrypted sparse image. You can make them in Disk Utility, and have different passwords for different images (Better yet would be TrueCrypt, but that can get advanced pretty quickly) The Terminal command at the beginning is over complicating things. All of those services can be accessed in System Preferences=>Sharing, with no Terminal Access. That being said, not all sharing is bad. I do try to keep my services to a minimum, as in addition to possibly opening up holes, they use up battery. And encrypting your home folder is kinda sucky. It’s a performance hit, a usability hit (ever try recovering file from a corrupted Home folder?), and the security is ineffective if someone gets you computer. A better choice would be to have an encrypted sparse image. You can make them in Disk Utility, and have different passwords for different images (Better yet would be TrueCrypt, but that can get advanced pretty quickly)

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