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>Previous owners do not return phone calls, and large corporations that dump 3000 machines assume they have been destroyed Yeah, they seem to even admit in the
by d_watt 4y ago
>Previous owners do not return phone calls, and large corporations that dump 3000 machines assume they have been destroyed
Yeah, they seem to even admit in the article they're dealing with machines the original owners expected to be destroyed.
Admittedly, I don't love the idea of that massive scale waste, but some people or corps have legitimate opsec concerns.
- insane_dreamer 4y agolarge corps are dumping 3000 M1 Macs?
- d_watt 4y agoNo idea, but that's what the person who's complaining about the security measures in the article seems to claim.
- Lalabadie 4y agoI find it hard to believe that corporations with this volume of (short term!) device turnover don't have basic device management in place, and the staff to operate it. Managed Apple devices are enrolled during prestage, which means the administrating account is able to unlock them independent of the employee Apple ID. You would need a combination of very high cashflow and lax/incompetent device management, plus a direct contact that grabs large amounts of these "used" computers without applying the most basic of processes for making sure the devices being repurposed can be, well, repurposed. I want to have good faith, but this sounds a lot like "thousands of quasi-new, pricey laptops are sold to us with a 'former corporate owner' that mysteriously doesn't answer phone or email, and we would like to act like they're ours now." It seems like this is an issue only if your business plan is to squint very hard every time you look at the source for the "used" laptops you're buying.
- krolden 4y agoMaybe they could just use laptops with removable storage then.