Hello, is this feature (settings, Privacy and security, advanced, close session if inactive) useful to put the data at rest after a set timer ?
Kinda like auto-reboot on GOS or iOS
Schedule power-off?
Can I do this ?
A simple search would say, yes: How to schedule your Mac to start up and shut down on its own - The Verge
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Auto-reboot needs to be implemented securely to be useful, (source) this implementation would be trivial for a sophisticated adversary to bypass. In this case it’s not even based on a timer but rather network-time which is insecure and unauthenticated, (source) at least on macOS.
The feature originally mentioned only logs the user out, which I would not rely on to wipe encryption keys from memory (I can’t find a definitive answer from Apple on this). In such a case, you really should reboot.
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