Securing your Mac
When you think/hear of security for the Mac, you’re usually talking about firewalls, encryption products and antivirus applications. 
But there are some much more brass-tacks security products on the Macworld Expo show-floor that have nothing to do with hackers or malware.
Orbicule’s Undercover, Gadgettrak’s Mac Trak and Absolute Software’s LoJack for Laptops each in their own way make it possible for you to track and recover a stolen Mac.
All three have the same basic idea: You install a client’s software on your Mac and register it with the vendor. If your laptop is stolen, that software can (depending on the app) transmit its IP address to the authorities
(who can use that network ID to find the laptop’s physical address), locate it via Wi-Fi triangulation, or even take a picture of the doer using the laptop’s built-in camera.
The best thing to do to prevent your laptop from being stolen is to lock it. Mac laptops have long had special receptacles for such locks built-in. But the MacBook Air is too thin for those receptacles.
At least two vendors at Macworld Expo – i2 Electronics and Noble Enterprises, were advertising some clever solutions to that problem.
In i2’s case, that means a bracket that slips over the MacBook Air’s screen; attach a cable and lock to the bracket, and your laptop cannot be snatched off your desk.
Noble’s solution is a thin skin that attaches to the bottom of the MBA, with two thin feet on the bottom that provide stability and a place to attach a lock.
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