TSA gave my MacBook Pro to another passenger at LAX, and now it's gone

Re:TSA gave my MacBook Pro to another passenger at LAX, and ... by mintplant on Thursday March 16, 2017 @05:11PM (#13889219)

> Amazingly, this story ended well, but the only reason it did is that I set a custom lock screen message that included my contact info. If you are running OS X, I highly recommend that you do the same!

This is such a great idea. On Windows 10 this inspired me to set my account profile image to a picture with my phone number and email address.

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Re:TSA gave my MacBook Pro to another passenger at LAX, and ... by avenoir on Thursday March 16, 2017 @05:19PM (#13889276)

This got me thinking. I have BitLocker on my XPS. If the same thing happened to me while it's powered down i would be screwed.

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Re:TSA gave my MacBook Pro to another passenger at LAX, and ... by kamjam on Thursday March 16, 2017 @05:22PM (#13889325)

Or, just wrote you name, number and email on some stickers and put them on the bottom of the laptop. It doesn't have to be high tech, and in this story the woman who took the laptop could have got in touch much sooner.

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Re:TSA gave my MacBook Pro to another passenger at LAX, and ... by adviceadam on Thursday March 16, 2017 @09:07PM (#13890528)

Yeah that is a great feature. Just set it on my laptop. Had no idea that setting existed.

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