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My primary concern is someone physically stealing my Macbook or iMac. They are personal devices and the content on them would not be much of interest to others
by jiscariot 8y ago
My primary concern is someone physically stealing my Macbook or iMac. They are personal devices and the content on them would not be much of interest to others, foreign governments or other entities.
I have Prey[1] installed. On both devices, I have "admin" credentials taped to the back. The account is actually a locked down user-level account with very little authority, other than being able to get on wifi/browse the internet, etc. I suppose this would be a honeypot of sorts. My thought being if someone walks off with it, I want to be able to gather as much info on them as possible. I haven't given a whole lot of thought to this, so definitely curious if there are issues with this approach.
[1]: https://preyproject.com/ https://preyproject.com/
- jrowley 8y agoWow that's a great idea to provide a fake admin account, so that you can get usage data. Could be useful even if you don't use prey if you have find my mac turned on.
- rootsudo 8y agoI've donee something similar too, with with a script that'd continually poll a website upon user login and findmymac. The only issue is a firewall on the router side, but, that's a highly targeted attack then. You also can't set a bootup/EFI password.
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- simonh 8y agoNeat. I read once about someone who had their photo booth folder set with a folder action to automatically post photos to Instagram (or something). When their Macbook was nicked their feed got spammed with photos of the thief and their friends.
- iamben 8y agoQuestion - I used to use Prey and loved it, but stopped about 5 or 6 years ago because (IIRC) it didn't work with full disk encryption or something like that. Instead I ended up setting up a separate user and find my Mac (or whatever the apple one is called). Has this changed? If you have a couple of minutes could you tell me how you have it set up?! Thanks!
- TMWNN 8y agoI use Prey with FileVault 2. I also have Find My Mac enabled.
- loopbit 8y agoYour comment reminded me of this: DEF CON 18 - Zoz - Pwned By The Owner: What Happens When You Steal A Hacker's Computer: https://youtu.be/Jwpg-AwJ0Jc https://youtu.be/Jwpg-AwJ0Jc
- neilalexander 8y agoThis is wonderful.
- jacobush 8y agoI more in the camp that if someone takes it, I write it off. I don't want to get my life dragged down in the minutia of "who took it, where is it". I just want to restore from (encrypted) backup and move on with my life.