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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 17:04 -0700
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <160820121704198185%nospam@nospam.invalid> (permalink)
References <7acf52e2-f7be-4f59-8816-ca4a31d40600@kg10g2000pbc.googlegroups.com>

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<7acf52e2-f7be-4f59-8816-ca4a31d40600@kg10g2000pbc.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 (brilliant! and
> further confirmation of my theory that prisons aren't full of
> criminals, they're full of imbeciles) (I have a file full of such
> incidents) (watch the police blotter in your local newspaper,
> it's hilarious)
> 
> 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.

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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
            Re: Jobs' theft and recovery Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2012-08-17 15:55 +0000
              Re: Jobs' theft and recovery Justin <justin@nobecauseihatespam.edu> - 2012-08-18 22:26 -0400
                Re: Jobs' theft and recovery Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2012-08-18 21:08 -0700
                Re: Jobs' theft and recovery Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2012-08-19 07:28 +0000
                Re: Jobs' theft and recovery Justin <justin@nobecauseihatespam.edu> - 2012-08-20 00:33 -0400
                Re: Jobs' theft and recovery Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2012-08-20 07:35 -0700
                Re: Jobs' theft and recovery George Kerby <ghost_topper@hotmail.com> - 2012-08-20 10:04 -0500
                Re: Jobs' theft and recovery George Kerby <ghost_topper@hotmail.com> - 2012-08-19 11:07 -0500
  Re: Jobs' theft and recovery JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2012-08-16 21:42 -0400
    Re: Jobs' theft and recovery "Wayne C. Morris" <wayne.morris@this.is.invalid> - 2012-08-17 15:02 -0500
      Re: Jobs' theft and recovery nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2012-08-17 13:20 -0700

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