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2. Why we continue to put up with this nonsense is beyond me.
> Luckily, I am meticulous about encryption and about backing up, so I don’t think I lost any data nor gave anyone else access. What is the OP's setup (and what are some alternatives), that he is so sure this was the case?
1) Enable disk encryption (System Preferences -> Security and Privacy -> FileVault)
2) Regular backups with TimeMachine to a USB drive. It your machine is lost you can use this to restore everything back to how it was pretty quickly. By default TimeMachine backups aren't encrypted, so make sure you check the "Encrypt backups" option when enabling it.
3) As well as using "Find my iPhone" (which requires the device to be connected to a network), I have a message with my contact details on the Lock and Login screens (System Preferences -> Security and Privacy -> General -> Show a message when the screen is locked).
4) Even if the disk is encrypted it can still be wiped, reinstalled and sold on to unsuspecting buyers. You can set a firmware password which will prevent that: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204455
(I had a Mac stolen a couple of years ago and as soon as I got a new device and got home I was back up and running as if nothing had happened. A few months later I even recovered the device - the police carried out a raid and found a number of devices, and contacted Apple for the owners based upon the serial numbers)
Interestingly (to me) the author used the phrase "on accident". I googled it and found this: http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/215/is-it-correct... As a British English speaker, this stopped me in my tracks. I'm wondering if it had the same effect on the American English readers of this article.
My take away from this... Put your name and number on your valuables just in case someone picks them up by accident.
You can put any message you want on your macbooks login/lock screen. Mine contains contact information just in case I loose it. Might actually pay off to put a sticker on it as well.
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There is a good chance that the person who took the laptop was acting with an accomplice, and that the woman making the scene was involved.
So you actually think there are gangs that take flights just to steal stuff during baggage check?
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Crashplan. $99 per year.
It's actually just $59/year. Seems totally worth it to me.
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Exactly what happened in Brussels. There the bombs were detonated in the check in departures hall before the security area. What happened afterwards is even more absurd. They organized a security check before entering the departures hall, leading to massive 3 hour waiting lines outside the building. Clearly protecting the building is far more important than the security of the people in the waiting line.
As ridiculous as that was I can't blame the politicians for that kind of absurdity. The media would eat them alive if they weren't shown to be 'active' and god forbid something happens again and nothing had changed. It's a sad situation, modern democracy and twitter have merged into a flurry of overactivity and fake outrage.
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There is a good chance that the person who took the laptop was acting with an accomplice, and that the woman making the scene was involved.
So you actually think there are gangs that take flights just to steal stuff during baggage check?
I don't really understand the importance of this story. Sure it's annoying and a huge inconvenience for the OP and I'm genuinely sorry for him. But it's a lost laptop. How often does this happen? Can you think of a way of changing the process that would result in a net benefit for everyone? If this story was "TSA gave away my diamond necklace" or "Nightclub cloakroom hands bag to wrong customer" we would recognise th…
> Can you think of a way of changing the process that would result in a net benefit for everyone? That one's easy: Getting rid of the TSA alltogether.
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If the government decides they need to take my stuff away from me to check it, they better make sure that I get it back correctly. In this case the TSA handed the laptop to someone other than the owner. If this happens, clearly the process has a defect, and needs to be corrected, or, even better in this case, abandoned completely. Don't blame the victim.
>Don't blame the victim. Ugh. >If the government decides they need to take my stuff away from me to check it, they better make sure that I get it back correctly. Absolutely! But if you keep expecting them to do that without being careful and paying attention to your own stuff guess who foots the bill? This could've been all mitigated by OP being slightly more careful. Why do I say this? Because it's easier to ask som…
However, clearly, if someone steals your things, or attacks you, it is irrelevant if you did or did not take care of your stuff: The blame lies with the perpetrator of this action, not with the victim.
That they forgot their laptop at the x-ray machine, does not entitle anyone else to just take it.
Therefore:
> I feel he should share some of the blame.
is wrong.