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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Neil McIntosh

Geeks v crooks: A wonderful

Geeks v crooks: A wonderful (long) tale of how an online community of Mac users turned cyber-detectives, and managed to help one of their number recover their stolen iMac and printer. Tech detail: they used Timbuktu and Apple Script to find it online, delete their personal data, and find out who had it so the police could go and recover it. Makes you wonder: couldn't computer/operating system manufacturers do more to make computers less stealable?

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