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davros on Aug 7, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Amazon Quietly Closes Security Hole After Journali...

Is it possible to prevent a remote wipe by Apple? Or at least so it is only possible with knowledge of my password? If I lose both my MBA and my password, I am ok with not being able to remote wipe.

EDIT: OK, I can disable remote wipe entirely by disabling 'find my mac'.

X-Istence on Aug 8, 2012 [–]

It is only possible if you know your iCloud username and password.

Now the reason why the attacker was able to remote wipe is because he had the iCloud username and the newly generated password.

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