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I use an encrypted linux VM with a VPN on my company Mac for anything personal like listening to music or checking email. At least if they were to suddenly lock me out of my Mac, the personal data would be encrypted. If they had a problem with me doing this, I just delete a single disk image file and everything is gone.

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I wish there was a way to do that natively with Firefox, whereby a whole profile is encrypted and password protected. Most personal things I do on work PC are through the browser, so if the profile were protected, it would be problem-solved.

Would you mind sharing more details about that "encrypted linux VM with a VPN", I would like to get something similar going on my company macbook.

I'm using VMware and it allows for encrypting the disk image and locking the settings behind a password. Within the VM, I'm using disk encryption so that the filesystem is secure. And then I run my own WireGuard VPN and I've setup network manager to auto connect so my traffic traverses the VPN.

I'm sure there are better ways to setup the VPN but it works for what I wanted it for.

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