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QuantumRoar on June 3, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple’s Tim Cook Delivers Blistering Speech on Enc...

It works with a Guest account, if you don't encrypt your hard drive. If you use FileVault, they specifically need your administrator password. So what are they actually doing there?

rainforest on June 3, 2015 [–]

I don't think you can boot the machine to login as Guest without a password if you have FileVault enabled.

QuantumRoar on June 3, 2015 | [–]

I think you can still boot from the network. If that's correct, then this whole thing gets ever more mysterious for me.

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