I just updated to Mountain Lion and noticed an option to encrypt my USB-connected Time Machine drive. So I did it. I have some sensitive data on here including bank information. Yes, I need it on here ...

After rebooting, you can't directly login to the encrypted user. But once logging into the normal, unencrypted user and entering in the password for the encrypted partition, you can fast user switch.

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Disk encryption is absolute magic to most non-mathematicians. And like any complex technology, it leads to uncomfortable questions. Does encrypting a disk make it less likely that data can be ...