I'm not going to evangelize. Or swoon over the new "Panther" release. All I'm going to do is make one simple prediction. You see, a good 50% of the Mac users out there just aren't ready for features as powerful as "Filevault". Filevault is Apple's marketing word for a 128-bit encryption option in Panther. It automatically encrypts and de-crypts every file in a user's "home" directory on the fly. Very cool. Very powerful.
But when you see this:
All yoIu can think of is this post from YouWho?.
In a nutshell, I predict that many Mac users are going to lose their life's work into the encryption abyss, and will bitch mercilessly about it. They will accuse Apple of abandoning the "Mac-dom" of Mac OS6 by turning away from a super-user-friendly UI and towards more modern and powerful features. Don't get me wrong, I personally will use this feature just to keep my AIM logs from ever being turned into a book.