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I can't seem to find traces of the original statements that went into much greater detail, but there is one case that sticks out, that of an Australian teen who accessed an internal system at Apple through unauthorized means and was on a Mac while doing so: https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/melbourne-teen-h... The statements i recall strongly indicated that Apple was aware of many machine identifiers which would have been impossible to log otherwise such as the serial number of the system itself and other such revealing information. If that is not convincing enough, there are plenty of tales of proprietary, unexposed APIs within the Apple stack itself that "ping home" with sensitive device information, the most recent example being one where any executable on a mac was deliberately blocked (a bug) until validated on Apples end. If you are looking for a smoking gun, i'm afraid, i cannot provide that, and i apologize if that's what you took away from my comment. On the other hand, as someone who understands software and the systems here, you may draw your own conclusions, given the two examples above on how hard it would be for someone at Apple, with a bit of motivation and access to do precisely this, ie, derive the information (inferred or direct) about device location through the find my app or other deeper layers of the stack where its stored, or, use the find my network to find devices such as MacBooks that they suspect were involved in activity their security teams dislike. |