Apple products are expensive and I don't think there is anyone who would want to lose one, that's why many users activate the Find My iPhone/iPad or Find My Mac system. The same thing was done by 2 men whose MacBook Pro and iPad tablet they were stolen from a car, but unfortunately the thief was smart enough to deactivate the services after the theft. The men went to the police, but without the help of Find My iPad/Mac they couldn't do anything, but the owner of the Mac remembered that on the laptop he had a service called Backblaze which made an online backup of his data, but also allowed the discovery of the Mac in case it was stolen.
Officer said to call if we had updates. While very nice, he didn't sound overly hopeful. Clearly, the officers in Detroit had more important things to do like catch murderers, rapists, and other criminals than find our missing electronics. I can't say I blame them. According to the detective, he assembled a team, and search warrant in hand, knocked on the door of the house. Receiving no answer, they turned on sirens and lights and announced their intention to enter — which they then did, with the aid of a Halligan bar and door frame. Once in, the house was swept and declared clear. Well, except for the drugs.
Initially, the police could not help the men recover their products because they did not have an address, but the BackBlaze system did not help them with an exact location either, but in the end the help came from the thief. He wanted to sell a car, so he uploaded the pictures of the car to the Mac, which were saved in BackBlaze, and put it up for sale on the Internet. Seeing the pictures of the car on BackBlaze and searching the ad on the Internet, the victims managed to discover the man's location, a location that the police searched and discovered what appeared to be Marijuana, the MacBook Pro, but not the iPad tablet plus the other items stolen.
A search of the house, "designed for narcotics distribution," yielded "multiple, large jars of suspected Marijuana, multiple individually packaged vials of suspected Marijuana and multiple knotted baggies of suspected Marijuana." My computer was located in an upstairs bedroom next to a mattress.
Even if some of the objects were never discovered, the MacBook Pro was recovered thanks to the BackBlaze system. Today Find My iPhone/iPad/Mac has become so popular that it is useless, so alternative protection systems must be used.
