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by aroch 4515 days ago
So turn off letting your Apple ID unlock your FV volumes. A FV drive, that's locked cannot be unlocked just by having local access.

You authorize Apple to make a backup of your drive if yu're having work done that may cause data loss.

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There is an issue with user switching and firewire/DMA that allows remote access as well as cold boot attacks but these are out of reach of most people.
firewire / thunderbolt DMA access was fixed many years ago: if you enabled a firmware password, those buses have DMA disabled.
Are you saying that if I have a firmware password on my MBA that my internal SSD is inaccessible via Thunderbolt externally (until I've entered my password)?
No, but your TB device wouldn't have read access to physical memory (where keys would be)
No - but it means that a device can't read your FileVault keys out of memory so all they can read is the encrypted volume.