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Re: Jobs' theft and recovery

From	nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system, comp.programming, alt.hacking, alt.privacy
Subject	Re: Jobs' theft and recovery
Date	2012-08-16 19:53 -0700
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<160820121953005424%nospam@nospam.invalid> (permalink)
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<01b433d4-0bc9-4720-85df-d2d1e114bbf2@f4g2000pbq.googlegroups.com>,
RichD <r_delaney2001@yahoo.com> wrote:

> > > Steve Jobs' house was burglarized, July 17.  The thief made off
> > > with a big haul, incuding Apple products.
> >
> > > Apparently, he was caught after he activated his iTunes
> > > account, from his house, with his new iMac
> >
> > > How did they trace it?  The report said it was through his IP
> > > address, but his assigned IP address - through Comcast
> > > or whatever - must be different than Jobs' home connection.
> > > Was it some hidden tracking software, or does each Mac
> > > contain a unique ID?
> >
> > macs have a unique serial number and 1 or more unique
> > mac addresses.  actually, all computers do.
> 
> So, they recognized his computer's ID number when
> he logged into iTunes?  And then located hin through
> the IP address?

basically, yea.

read the gory details here:
<http://081512-news-redacted-pages.s3.amazonaws.com/081512-NEWS-redacted-
pages.pdf>

> Would this happen with any iMac, any theft, or was it a
> special effort for this celebrity case?

that no doubt helped.

somehow, i doubt if you or i called apple and asked them to be on the
lookout for a stolen imac or macbook or whatever connecting to the
itunes store, that they'd be watching all that closely.

Thread

Jobs' theft and recovery RichD <r_delaney2001@yahoo.com> - 2012-08-16 16:59 -0700
  Re: Jobs' theft and recovery nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2012-08-16 17:04 -0700
    Re: Jobs' theft and recovery RichD <r_delaney2001@yahoo.com> - 2012-08-16 18:58 -0700
      Re: Jobs' theft and recovery J.J. O'Shea <try.not.to@but.see.sig> - 2012-08-16 22:31 -0400
      Re: Jobs' theft and recovery nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2012-08-16 19:53 -0700
      Re: Jobs' theft and recovery Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2012-08-16 20:07 -0700
        Re: Jobs' theft and recovery nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2012-08-16 21:39 -0700
          Re: Jobs' theft and recovery Justin <justin@nobecauseihatespam.edu> - 2012-08-17 01:25 -0400
            Re: Jobs' theft and recovery Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2012-08-17 08:15 -0700
            Re: Jobs' theft and recovery nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2012-08-17 08:50 -0700

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