One final question for my Macbook breh experts (and illadope)

[Ayo]

1. Lojack for laptops is tamper proof as long as the hard drive is not wiped out with a clean install. It relies on background processes running on OS X. Not sure about the PC version but there's nothing special or fancy going on on the Mac version.

2. Even if a serial is registered with them, Apple does not assist authorities in recovering stolen hardware. Period.

3. You have nothing to worry about.

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

I could careless if you believe me or not son...

It's not my macbook you stole...

I just hope that dude is smart enough to report it so I can laugh at another dumb Apple thief gets busted story...

Technically I didn't steal anything. It was an unclaimed item in the lost and found. As far as smarts... he not only lost it but he had the password taped to the damn thing. I prayed on it have have repented. I also promise to put it to good use.

As far as what you were trying to say, it just didn't make sense. You're saying there is a tracking chip.. I'm saying there's no mention of it when I do a basic google search. Even if that were the case you would still need some type of software to activate it which and if you take out the hard drive it can only hide in the bios or in my case EFI. I highly doubt the owner went through that much trouble.

 

[Ayo]

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

1. Lojack for laptops is tamper proof as long as the hard drive is not wiped out with a clean install. It relies on background processes running on OS X. Not sure about the PC version but there's nothing special or fancy going on on the Mac version.

2. Even if a serial is registered with them, Apple does not assist authorities in recovering stolen hardware. Period.

3. You have nothing to worry about.

Evidently Lojack consists of two parts. One part is software inside the bios/efi that already comes with the computer and apparently its like terminator 2 where if you erase it, it will repair itself. LoJack installs the other software and they both work together. So if you delete the lojack software the bios feature will repopulate it.

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that's some scary shyt if you think about it.

If someone stole the computer just to get the information off of it they would just steal the hard drive. Now I'm thinking you can't hide the tracking software in the master boot record but they use something that's already built in the bios/efi.

 

[Audible101]

Return to owner, prosper in good karma.

 

[Ayo]

Evidently Lojack consists of two parts. One part is software inside the bios/efi that already comes with the computer and apparently its like terminator 2 where if you erase it, it will repair itself. LoJack installs the other software and they both work together. So if you delete the lojack software the bios feature will repopulate it.

Absolute Software | FAQ - Technology

that's some scary shyt if you think about it.

If someone stole the computer just to get the information off of it they would just steal the hard drive. Now I'm thinking you can't hide the tracking software in the master boot record but they use something that's already built in the bios/efi.

None of this applies to Macs. The Mac tracking is at the OS level.