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I don't agree. You should have backups regardless and the odds of your laptop drive just gives up or it falls to the floor or gets stolen should, in any univers
by tjoff 14y ago
I don't agree. You should have backups regardless and the odds of your laptop drive just gives up or it falls to the floor or gets stolen should, in any universe, be way more probable (regardless of usage) than a "database-server glitch" on Apple's part.
Yes, you should backup but for way more important reasons than enabling remote wiping.
- danso 14y agoNo argument there...but I'm just saying, remote wipe does what it does. Is there any consumer out there who enables it without realizing that it indeed allows the destruction of your device's data from "the cloud"? I assume that the average consumer is sufficiently paranoid about these kinds of technologies going awry...a database-server glitch is improbable, but don't you think the average consumer assumes otherwise?
- makomk 14y agoApparently remote wipe is enabled by a little innocent-sounding checkbox labelled "Enable Find My Mac", so consumers have almost certainly enabled it without realising that it allows their data to be wiped by a poorly-secured cloud system.