The devices that detect your Mac’s signal do not know you, your Mac, or either location, all they do is transmit a heavily encrypted signal back to Apple, letting them know a Mac exists nearby. The computer will continue to send low energy Bluetooth signals which can be picked up by any nearby Apple device. The new feature works even when your Mac is sleeping with its lid closed. "It uses just tiny bits of data that piggyback on existing network traffic so there’s no need to worry about your battery life, your data usage, or your privacy." How does this work? "Now what’s amazing is that this whole interaction is end-to-end encrypted and anonymous," Apple VP Craig Federighi said during his WWDC keynote. “The location of a lost or stolen Mac can be securely and anonymously relayed back to its owner by other Apple devices, even when it is offline.” What did Apple tell us about Find My Mac?Īpple’s press release states that using the application: The ideas is that it will use low energy Bluetooth signals to help bring people together with lost things.
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