Stolen school property recovered

housebound said :

Other than the concept of ACT IT knowing and being able to do these things, maybe that’s how they were found.

shared services know how to do it. of course, it helps if they know about the equipment arriving at the school. MDM is deployed across networks.

Henry82 said :

Rawhide Kid Part3 said :

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Ooops Thanks.

Rawhide Kid Part3 said :

I would have thought as standard practice, the school would have locked all these iPads to make them pretty much useless to any one who would be silly enough to buy them on the cheep. Or even have the “find me” function activated.

Guided access mode is what you’re thinking of, and it’s easy enough to get around if you know what you’re doing. There’s a way around just about all of the security in i-devices if you know how.

Rawhide Kid Part3 said :

I would have thought as standard practice, the school would have locked all these iPads to make them pretty much useless to any one who would be silly enough to buy them on the cheep..

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Perhaps you could recommend software that protects the ipads from being overwritten in recovery? AFAIK it doesn’t exist.

Other than the concept of ACT IT knowing and being able to do these things, maybe that’s how they were found.

Rawhide Kid Part3 said :

I would have thought as standard practice, the school would have locked all these iPads to make them pretty much useless to any one who would be silly enough to buy them on the cheep. Or even have the “find me” function activated.

Depends on just how new they were. Donning my ‘internet detective’ hat, it sounds like someone knew exactly where to find them in the school. If it was in fact some type of inside job, chances are that they may have been brand new, still in the box and never activated.

I would have thought as standard practice, the school would have locked all these iPads to make them pretty much useless to any one who would be silly enough to buy them on the cheep. Or even have the “find me” function activated.