If Apple releases Mac OS X 10.7 Lion at next week’s WWDC, not only could it gain its own “Find My Mac” feature, but it could allow you to remotely wipe your hard drive even if the perp who stole your Mac isn’t logged into the computer.
Upon trying to install the latest beta of Lion on an HFS+ journaled partition, MacRumors forum user ArmanUV was given this warning:
Due to the layout or type of your disk, installing to the selected disk will result in a install of Lion that is not compatible with the following features:
– Full Disk Encryption
– Find My Mac
– Recovery SystemIf you wish to install anyway, click Continue.
This is just speculation, but the rest of the MacRumors crew had a good idea why Lion would cough up that message: Find My Mac might have a remote wipe feature that would automatically reboot into the recovery partition to wipe the disk.
We should know next week.
[via 9to5Mac]
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