Perfectly good M1 MacBooks are being scrapped because of Activation Lock [video]

Re:Perfectly good M1 MacBooks are being scrapped because of ... by thefz on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @02:54AM (#36677312)

I'm having a hard time believing that these measures are by any means preventing theft. The scene with a thief going "oh no, it's an Apple device! I am not gonna steal it" is almost comical.

Devices will be stolen anyway and scrapped/dropped instead.

PSA: Enable Bitlocker and LUKS on your devices, folks. Your device is 100% going to be targeted now.

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Re:Perfectly good M1 MacBooks are being scrapped because of ... by theshrike79 on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @03:14AM (#36677471)

I have second-hand knowledge of a situation where a friend's office was broken into, the thieves left all Apple computers but grabbed monitors and PCs.

The thieves weren't random crackheads breaking in on a whim though, they specifically knew what the expensive stuff looked like (colour calibrated displays, drawing tablets) and left the cheap and impossible to resell stuff alone.

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Re:Perfectly good M1 MacBooks are being scrapped because of ... by nicolas_17 on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @03:01AM (#36677383)

And then you find the place the thief dropped it at, via Find My?

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