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"Back To My Mac" Catches a Thief

Posted by kdawson on from the don't-mess-with-an-apple-grrrl dept.

robipilot writes "Mac stolen, Mac comes online, owner connects using 'Back to My Mac,' owner takes picture of culprit, and voila, criminal caught. OK, it wasn't quite that simple, but here's an interesting story of using some built-in technology on the Mac to recover a stolen laptop."

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  1. Re:Not so useless by k1980pc · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It is not silly. But it is not "just works" either. The person seems to be extremely lucky. I never saw anyone get it to work outside Apple Store

  2. built-in technology on the Mac by nguy · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Wow, "built-in technology on the Mac" makes it sound so important. I guess those brilliant inventors at Apple must have labored very hard to copy the idea of building in a camera above a laptop screen from Sony.