iMac locked with find my iphone: Encrypted or not?

[babadoctor]

So, my iMac was stolen recently, and it had my social security number on it, all of my personal information, etc.

 

I immediately locked it with the lock feature on find my iphone, and by some miracle icloud tells me the imac locked itself.

 

Does anyone know if the hard drive encrypts itself once this feature is activated? If so, how safe is the encryption?

 

 

 

If it doesn't, can I sue apple if all of my assets are stolen?

[Cookybiscuit]

6 minutes ago, babadoctor said:

can I sue apple?

Absolutely.

[Drak3]

2 minutes ago, babadoctor said:

If it doesn't, can I sue apple if all of my assets are stolen?

You can, and you'll lose.

 

Your Mac's HDD should be encrypted by default. Worst comes to worst, you can wipe it remotely.

[babadoctor]

3 minutes ago, Drak3 said:

You can, and you'll lose.

 

Your Mac's HDD should be encrypted by default. Worst comes to worst, you can wipe it remotely.

So ignoring that end part does anyone know what encryption standards are used?

[Sniperfox47]

11 minutes ago, babadoctor said:

So, my iMac was stolen recently, and it had my social security number on it, all of my personal information, etc.

 

I immediately locked it with the lock feature on find my iphone, and by some miracle icloud tells me the imac locked itself.

 

Does anyone know if the hard drive encrypts itself once this feature is activated? If so, how safe is the encryption?

 

 

 

If it doesn't, can I sue apple if all of my assets are stolen?

No it's not unless you used FileVault to Full Disk Encrypt your Mac. Even in High Sierra all of the content is unencrypted by default for performance reasons. With Macs commonly used for media encoding and other storage heavy tasks, even the slight overhead of encryption is undesirable.

[Drak3]

1 minute ago, babadoctor said:

So ignoring that end part does anyone know what encryption standards are used?

XTS-AES 128.

 

 

[babadoctor]

6 minutes ago, Sniperfox47 said:

No it's not unless you used FileVault to Full Disk Encrypt your Mac. Even in High Sierra all of the content is unencrypted by default for performance reasons. With Macs commonly used for media encoding and other storage heavy tasks, even the slight overhead of encryption is undesirable.

So... what can I do?

[Drak3]

6 minutes ago, Sniperfox47 said:

Even in High Sierra all of the content is unencrypted by default for performance reasons. With Macs commonly used for media encoding and other storage heavy tasks, even the slight overhead of encryption is undesirable.

Filevault 2 is opt-out as of Yosemite, meaning it's on by default unless you untick the box during setup or do it manually afterwards.

[Jade]

1 minute ago, babadoctor said:

So... what can I do?

Given you no longer have access to the device? Nothing.

[Sniperfox47]

2 minutes ago, Drak3 said:

Filevault 2 is opt-out as of Yosemite, meaning it's on by default unless you untick the box during setup or do it manually afterwards.

Oh? My apologies for the misinformation then. I had to help a friend of mine get it working on her new iMac last year, and there are a number of *new* tutorials for how to do it online so I was of the impression it defaulted to off.

 

Wonder why it was off for her.

[Drak3]

Just now, Sniperfox47 said:

Wonder why it was off for her.

Might've hit a tick box on accident

[babadoctor]

3 minutes ago, Jade said:

Given you no longer have access to the device? Nothing.

I tried contacting apple to ask them what the IP address of the device was that got locked is and they refused to give it to me.

 

I yelled their heads off

[Jade]

Just now, babadoctor said:

I tried contacting apple to ask them what the IP address of the device was that got locked is and they refused to give it to me.

Exactly. Short of having the ability to access the Mac when it's on (locking it, as you did, effectively prevents that software from even launching), there's virtually nothing you can do. Example of how having said software would help you is shown very well here.

 

[babadoctor]

13 hours ago, Jade said:

Exactly. Short of having the ability to access the Mac when it's on (locking it, as you did, effectively prevents that software from even launching), there's virtually nothing you can do. Example of how having said software would help you is shown very well here.

 

it would have taken a lot of effort to install an unerasable backdoor on my imac.

 

i don't know how to do that either.

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On 10/3/2017 at 5:56 AM, babadoctor said:

I tried contacting apple to ask them what the IP address of the device was that got locked is and they refused to give it to me.

 

Of course they're not going to give that to you.  Report the theft, have the police ask for the IP address.  They can get a court order if needed.

[babadoctor]

19 hours ago, Captain Chaos said:

 

Of course they're not going to give that to you.  Report the theft, have the police ask for the IP address.  They can get a court order if needed.

Actually?