Lock Up 🔐✈️ 🔓
Easily remove and restore sensitive files from your Mac.
Sadly today, when travelling with a laptop, you need to remove sensitive information before passing through Airport Security.
This is a configurable node application to make the process for an individual or an organisation easier.
Lockup will ask you about what apps you wish to secure, compile the relevant files into a zip, and upload it to cloud storage.
At the other end you can run npx lockup restore to download and restore
all the files.
Your configuration is saved in the current directory as lockup-config.json
If you have colleagues with the same setup you can use this file as a template
Supported Apps/Files
| Module | Description |
|---|---|
| Authy | Secures Authy database |
| Browsers | Secures localStorage & cookies from Firefox, & Chrome |
| Cloud Development | Secures credentials from Google Cloud and AWS |
| Development | Secures .env files from development |
| Instructions | Module for displaying custom instructions to display before or after clean/restore |
| Mac Calander and Adddress | Secures calendar and address book |
| Mac Keychain | Secures your user account keychains |
| One Password | Switch one password to travel mode |
| Postico | Postgres data admin tool |
| Raisely Cli | Raisely CLI for local development |
| Slack | Secures slack credentials and clears cache |
A note on built-in apps & files
Many built in files apps on Mac now have restricted access. In order for lockup to remove and restore those files, you need to grant the terminal you run lockup from "Full Disk Access".
To do this, go to System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> Privacy Tab -> Full Disk Access
Files Selected
Lockup is not a backup tool. Lockup strives to stash away a minimal set of files needed to
keep sensitive information inaccessible should an untrustworthy person use your laptop
after you have run lockup clean.
The aim is that this should be a quick command to run, including storing the file in cloud storage so the aim is to minimise the number and size of files that are moved to cloud storage.
This means that between cleaning and restoring, it is not advisable to run any of the cleaned apps as they may not be stable or function properly.
Installing
Lockup is built and tested on node 8. Simply clone the repo and run node lockup to run it
Configuration
node lockup config
This will ask you which apps you wish to secure and any special details about them
Clean
This will use the configuration to create the zip, and potentially purge cache files
You can run a clean with
node lockup clean
Restore
Restore files. Run this after you've cleared airport security
node lockup restore