Someone broke in to Steve Jobs house last month and stole a bunch of stuff, including some Apple computers. The police caught the guy when he connected the computer(s) to the Internet and the system connected back to the Apple Mothership for some updates.
(I'm out of my league here regarding Apple, so the above techy description may be inaccurate.) The news article makes it sound like because the computer connected with the Apple Mother, the police were able to go to the exact location where the computer was operating and arrest the guy. If true, does that make anyone else wonder about the risk of owning an Apple device? Or am I being naive and the same could happen with a Windows box? Was it GPS? There were probably some forensics involved that are not disclosed to the average Joe on the street...something like the MAC address of his NIC? Not sure I want the Police being able to call up MSoft (or Google) to obtain the Lat and Long for my computer, or cell phone. (Not doing anything illegal, but the Good Guys may not always be the ones running things...) Mike _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
