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Agreed, I missed that tidbit. I guess I was focusing on the idea that someone can wipe your iPhone, iPad, and Mac without ever touching your gmail account. As a father of two year old and 4 month old girls, the photos are the part that of the story that I find the most distressing. Everything else is upsetting, but you can rebuild contact lists and things. Those pictures are completely irreplaceable and it is just gut-wrenching for me to think about that.

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That is terrible. Though, I don't understand why anyone would turn on a "find my Mac" feature that has the potential to wipe your entire hard drive remotely unless you have thorough backups. Time machine is dead easy to use; try pluging in a usb hard drive and it will ask you if you want to use this as a backup drive. Arc is something that anyone on the mac should use as well for backing up priceless pictures and files. It encrypts the files locally and then sends them to your amazon S3 bucket as a backup. Easy and cheap too as you are only charged what you backup at the S3 rate(as of now it's ~0.125/GB/Month +a very small amount for put and get requests).

The "Find My Mac" feature is on by default. I just turned mine off in the iCloud settings

+1 for Arq (just posting this to note the correct spelling, for those who want to Google it).

Yeah it's Arq, iPad auto correct gets me way too many times.

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