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I'm not quite clear on how this worked. Since the disk wasn't wiped, either the thief would have had to have logged into an existing account or the MacBook didn
by jvandonsel 15y ago
I'm not quite clear on how this worked. Since the disk wasn't wiped, either the thief would have had to have logged into an existing account or the MacBook didn't have a login requirement.
So tracking software is useful only if you don't require a login on bootup or wakeup?
- deno 15y agoThe best of both worlds is to have a fake system—that is booted automatically, without any password etc. and with installed spyware—alongside your actual OS, encrypted and hidden. You could even just keep data on your disk and have /boot on a pendrive (or a memory card, which seems more practical).
- kyleslattery 15y agoI'm pretty sure Hidden recommends that you create a guest account, so that the thief has an account to use.
- cdr 15y agoI have a passwordless Guest account set up on both Windows and Linux for Predator. It's possible that as stories like this continue to get publicized thieves will get smarter and start removing or wiping disks, but it seems like a lot of the time they're not nearly that smart.