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The iMac is gone. The remote wipe would be equivalent to a format so you may be able to get some data back but most of it would be unusable. I don't think Appl
by taligent 14y ago
The iMac is gone.
The remote wipe would be equivalent to a format so you may be able to get some data back but most of it would be unusable. I don't think Apple can do much about not having a backup. What Apple probably needs to do is have a popup to remind people to backup when they switch on the Find My Mac feature. But I doubt they can do more than that.
- fuzzleonard 14y agoEven if Apple could recover the data by doing so they would be admitting their remote wipe feature is worthless. I rather doubt they will add a "I see you have enabled Find My Mac--you better back up your system because we will give any random idiot who calls in access to wipe your hard drive. Thanks for choosing Apple!" popup, though.
- r00fus 14y agoUseless? No, flawed, but if the guy has backups like most folks should - he'd have been fine. Apple even makes it easy with Time Machine - they can't be faulted for the wipe (I don't have this on my Mac - I just use disk+memory encryption). Apple can be faulted for allowing the security breach.
- 0x0 14y agoOn the iphone, the file system is always encrypted, and the encryption keys are stored on the device, themselves being encrypted with your PIN/passphrase. To perform a remote wipe, it only needs to zero out this single block containing the FS keys, making the whole FS unrecoverable since the keys are gone. I wonder if the same thing happens on Filevault2. In that case, Apple's only choice would be to rent some serious GPU time at NSA or something...