“We all need to protect our private data,” Thorin Klosowski writes for Lifehacker.
“But when you’re working with sensitive files, pictures, and your passwords, you want to ensure other people can’t easily get to it,” Klosowski writes. “Beyond that, with a Mac, even simple things like your text messages can pop up in someone else’s face if you’re not careful. For some of us, this can feel like a huge privacy issue, but thankfully OS X has tons of settings you can tweak to lock down your data, search results, and more.”
Klosowski writes, “Much of the default behavior in OS X is meant to make things easier for you, but it also means that if someone sits down at your computer they can accidentally come across a ton of stuff you might not want them to. Here are a few general settings worth tweaking…”
Read more in the full article – recommended – here.