secret52 Posted September 3, 2009 Share Posted September 3, 2009 If you want to see just how secure apple products are, check out this news report: http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/video?id=6996090 23 MacBook Pros, 14 iPhones, and 9 iPods Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
decepticon_eazy_e Posted September 4, 2009 Share Posted September 4, 2009 If you want to see just how secure apple products are, check out this news report: http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/video?id=6996090 23 MacBook Pros, 14 iPhones, and 9 iPods To be fair, this has nothing to do with the security of Apple products. That could have been any computer store with any brand electronics. You smash a plate glass window with a rock and grab all that stuff in 31 seconds, it won't matter what brand it was. It could have been 23 HP laptops, 14 blackberrys, and 9 Zunes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cykio Posted September 4, 2009 Share Posted September 4, 2009 Yeah could have been any store and what was the security guard going to do anyway when it was 5v1. Also those iphones can just be locked/bricked remotely? friend has app that he track them and locked them remotely from website sure apple have a similar thing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted September 4, 2009 Share Posted September 4, 2009 The iPhones were a bad steal, and I'm pretty sure those iPods can be locked out of iTunes to some extent. However the laptops are a good steal, if they are smart and take them out of town to sell they can get away with this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seshan Posted September 4, 2009 Share Posted September 4, 2009 The Apple store near me has all the iphone and ipod locked down. Don't know why this one didn't, not sure if the Macs are locked down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barry99705 Posted September 6, 2009 Share Posted September 6, 2009 The Apple store near me has all the iphone and ipod locked down. Don't know why this one didn't, not sure if the Macs are locked down. I'm pretty sure they have the serial number of every laptop stolen. These serial numbers will then go into gsx as stolen computers. Hope the morons that took them never take them to an authorized service center to get worked on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zimmer Posted September 6, 2009 Share Posted September 6, 2009 Um barry99075 just wear the serial number off so it is unreadable and if it is in the BIOS or hard drive Change it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaser48 Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 Um barry99075 just wear the serial number off so it is unreadable and if it is in the BIOS or hard drive Change it. Thats if the theifs are smart enough to find such techniques. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zimmer Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 What ware the serial number off, I am smart enough to do that :) and hard drive reformat and EFI (not BIOS this is a Mac duh) I have no clue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barry99705 Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 Um barry99075 just wear the serial number off so it is unreadable and if it is in the BIOS or hard drive Change it. The serial number is burned into the mobo's firmware. Once it's there, it's there, you can't remove it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zimmer Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 Oh didn't know that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomethingToChatWith Posted September 8, 2009 Share Posted September 8, 2009 My brother works at an apple store that fell victim to this kind of thing. They use thier mobile me technology to locate the stolen phones/computers. Within a week or so they arrested the culprits so its matter of time before these losers get caught as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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