Bloke gets hacked big style.Google, Twitter, Aoole ID, iPhone, iPad, MacBook wiped

[Sysman]

Apple only allowed them to remotely own all his apple devices.

Only because he'd set them up that way.

There's a good argument for setting a phone up for remote wipe, less so for a laptop.

The consensus of opinion seems to be that you should only set it up for a laptop when taking it somewhere it might be nicked, like when on holiday.

The moral in this story is that you don't want to set up remote wipe for all your stuff, at least not where it can be done from one account.

[Ignis Fatuus]

Yeah.

Remote wipe plus no backup ever? I may be lazy sometimes but I could never be that lax.

[Sysman]

The consensus of opinion seems to be that you should only set it up for a laptop when taking it somewhere it might be nicked, like when on holiday.

Unless of course you are a Civil Servant or work for the MoD and are prone to leaving the things in pubs, on buses or in taxis

[NickFitz]

Yeah.

Remote wipe plus no backup ever? I may be lazy sometimes but I could never be that lax.

Exactly. It's not as if it's hard to back up a Mac: plug in a USB drive (or get an Airport Extreme and plug a drive into that) and the OS will ask if you want to use it for Time Machine backups. Say yes and hey presto, you have regular backups happening silently in the background.

The other day I managed to screw up my Eclipse setup at ClientCo. I just logged into my network at home, opened up the Time Machine backup of the Applications directory and restored a working Eclipse from there

In fact, thinking about it, the only time I ever use the backup is restoring Eclipse to a previous working copy when a new plugin has destroyed things. I should stop using Eclipse