[Swordmaker]

We’re also talking about the concern of leaving your data in the hands of some iGenius dude making $7 per hour... Not exactly the way I’d want to spend my day being paranoid over what that turtlenecked pro-Obama dweeb is doing with my computer.

Unless that $8 per hour—I'm in California where they add a buck to the federal minimum wage) iGenius Dude is working for the CIA, wouldn't worry too much. I keep my user space encrypted with AES 128 bit encryption with FileVault. Don't you?

[Blue Highway]

I don’t own a Mac so I don’t know if or what encryption is available.

[AFreeBird]

I keep my user space encrypted with AES 128 bit encryption with FileVault. Don't you?

I use TrueCrypt myself. Open source and runs on, Win, OSX and Linux.