[fuzzleonard]

Even if Apple could recover the data by doing so they would be admitting their remote wipe feature is worthless.

I rather doubt they will add a "I see you have enabled Find My Mac--you better back up your system because we will give any random idiot who calls in access to wipe your hard drive. Thanks for choosing Apple!" popup, though.

[r00fus]

Useless? No, flawed, but if the guy has backups like most folks should - he'd have been fine.

Apple even makes it easy with Time Machine - they can't be faulted for the wipe (I don't have this on my Mac - I just use disk+memory encryption).

Apple can be faulted for allowing the security breach.