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How protected is your Mac without FileVault enabled?

pple has used the FileVault name to cover full-disk encryption (often abbreviated FDE) since Mac OS X 10.7 Lion back in 2011. For years, FileVault used a read/write-intensive encryption method that took a long time to first encrypt your drive and then was a slight drag on performance thereafter, though it was not very noticeable. In exchange,

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