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non-nil on Jan 14, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple removes first-party firewall exemption in ma...

Does this mean that every user account has their own data volume or that every user account has their home folder encrypted on a per-file basis? Or neither?

What is the privacy implications of two users (both with administrator accounts) sharing an Apple Silicon Mac?

my123 on Jan 14, 2021 [–]

One data volume per OS install.

Both users have access to all the data in that case. It got carried over from iOS which didn't have multi-user support.

(and this is by-design, protection granularity is the volume)

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