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Are Time Machine backups secure?
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Mar 15, 20262416 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I have my Time Machine backups on an external disk (WD My Passport with no hardware encryption) and I'm worried if the data stored on the disk is safe in case somebody steals it and connect it to any Mac/PC. Does any Mac can browse the Time Machine backups? Or are they encrypted in any way? If no, …
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No There is zero encryption applied by default to a Time Machine backup. Although you may not be able to just 'load' a Time Machine backup from another computer easily, I would imagine that it would be very trivial for someone to actually view the f…
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