What Can You Do Before Your Mac Gets Stolen?
The last FBI report says over 600,000 laptops were stolen in 2004. Desktops get stolen, too.
97-percent of stolen computes never get recovered. What can you do? Anti-theft software doesn’t work.
Why do I say that? Because software won’t prevent the Mac from being stolen in the first place. But it may help to get it back. When you think about it, there’s really only two issues regarding a stolen computer.
First, how do you prevent it from getting stolen in the first place? Locks? Chains? Armed guards? Hungry dogs.... (excerpted).
2 Reader Comments
vanax said:
Errr,...there already is a pocket computer. Duh. If I am not mistaken, its first letter is “i” and its last is an “e.”
Hey, I can’t wait for personal computer the size of a thumbnail…yeah, really small, with a separate touchscreen for typing, and, ahhh, you could store the touch screen in your backpack. Know what I mean? How cool is that, huh?
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Mac-addict said:
I bought my first iMac early this year, but it was stolen hours before I left for my fourth deployment to Iraq by someone close. I just wish I had known about this product before hand. All I have left to do is save up and buy yet another and eat the cost of the previous one and yet again accumulate more pics and vids of my loving family starting when it was stolen and on since I never got the chance to backup my data. It’s a shame there has to be so much thievery in this world. They just don’t know who they hurt, just how much, and frankly , they don’t even care.