Laptop security: Apple vs. [Insert name here]
Sorry for your experience.<p>One standard approach is to set up full disk encryption. A common setup would encrypt every partitions but your &#x2F;boot partition, so a thief would be unable to access your system if it were powered off. (If you&#x27;re especially cautious, you can do tricks to protect your &#x2F;boot partition too, to guard against tampering, but that&#x27;s beyond the scope of protecting against theft.)<p>The catch is if the thief steals your powered-on laptop, the system&#x27;s still decrypted (meaning, the decryption key is still in memory). I&#x27;d guess locking your machine is a partial guard (and is what I rely on), but I&#x27;d be interested in learning if there&#x27;s a better method of protection.<p>ArchWiki has a pretty good overview: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.archlinux.org&#x2F;index.php&#x2F;Disk_encryption" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.archlinux.org&#x2F;index.php&#x2F;Disk_encryption</a>. I&#x27;m happy to try and answer any questions you have.