Apple Offers Customized MacBooks to School Districts

[Veri]

and the school hax0r's first job will be...

As any fule kno, every school has a little group of keen hackers. They are usually useful to an enlightened IT dept because they highlight security issues, and their aim is to enable functionality and/or cause mild mischief, not to be malicious. They shy away from no challenge, and their first job will be to find out how to remotely disable a random laptop's hard drive.

But this information just needs to reach one idiot, and congratulations, several hundred destroyed hard drives.

Meanwhile, the savvy thief just replaces the drive.

 

[Kwill]

Overlapping levels of security are good

Its probably nothing Jim Phelps dramatic.

As for unremovable stickers, if KC schools are getting 5000 of these things they could get a custom plastic cover with the "sticker" etched or with a clear plastic case and the sticker between the plastic and the metal.

'Your mission, Mr. Phelps, is to do your homework. Attempts to avert this assignment by lying and saying that your MacBook was lost or stolen will will be averted. This message will self destruct in 5 seconds.'

Etched identification can be covered with stickers.

 

[ruckus]

it'll be interesting if sun flares (or something) start triggering the hard drives to erase themselves. Thank goodness for time machine!

 

[gwangung]

Etched identification can be covered with stickers.

If you're looking for a missing laptop, wouldn't that sticker warrant a little more investigation?

 

[Mac_Max]

http://www.g4tv.com/pile_player.aspx?video_key=7724

Who needs C4, it's all about thermite . The fun begins at about 2:30.

 

[John Musbach]

Apple has won large contracts for MacBooks in Kansas City and Louisiana. The two contracts are valued at $6.4 million and $5 million respectively

It appears Apple has made efforts to provide custom solutions to educators to meet their needs. Kansas City officials describe additional security measures added to the MacBooks, including a way to track lost/stolen MacBooks:


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Wow this is pretty intense , sounds like something businesses would enjoy too...

 

[EagerDragon]

Apple has won large contracts for MacBooks in Kansas City and Louisiana. The two contracts are valued at $6.4 million and $5 million respectively

It appears Apple has made efforts to provide custom solutions to educators to meet their needs. Kansas City officials describe additional security measures added to the MacBooks, including a way to track lost/stolen MacBooks:


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Sounds like excesive security for a term paper speciallly in a high School.
This maybe an experiment for Apple to provide corporations in the near future similar capabilites.