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Have your stolen Mac call home

I've often wondered why Macs (and even iPhones) don't come with this functionality. Great idea and seemingly simple to implement.

permanent link 19 sep at 18:20 by Mike

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commentat 23:14 on 27 September 2007, Dustin Brewer wrote:

I'm sure a lot of it has to do with privacy concerns and the amount of problems that Apple (or anyone) could run into if they did have something like that installed. Potentially I could even see them being held liable in cases where it doesn't call home and because they installed that feature someone misconstruing that as responsibility.

Really, it is just a legal crapfest.

commentat 19:07 on 07 January 2008, Logo Designers wrote:

yeah very good point Dustin about privacy laws - Apple could opening themselves to a class-action lawsuit

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