The last few years I have wasted my share of hours to understand how Mac OSX various sleep states work. My main challenge has been that I encrypt the harddrive, and from a security point of view, that doesn't help much if you have the computer in sleep mode with the key in memory (however, you don't need to use FileVault disk encryption to find these notes helpful). First of … [Read more...] about Secure Mac OSX sleep, standby, and hibernation