Will Find my Mac ever be possible on Snow Leopard?

Question

I'd like to use the remote lock/wipe for my Macbook Pro should it ever be lost, but sadly it's only a feature of iCloud and therefore Lion.
Is it likely that this feature will ever come to Snow Leopard, or will I need to use 3rd party software to do it?

Answer 1

stevearm wrote:
I'd like to use the remote lock/wipe for my Macbook Pro should it ever be lost, but sadly it's only a feature of iCloud and therefore Lion.
If you use Filevualt, the entire drive is encrypted and therefore doesn't need to be wiped as the data is inaccessible,
However a full Filevault can make recovery by you difficult and slow down the normal operation of the machine, the computer won't work if it won't boot and tracking software won't work neither.
A alternative is to use software to encrypt individual files or folders of files, this way they can be transferred to another machine, the software installed and the files decrypted with the password. The computer can boot and therefore give up it's location and details about the perp with secret software installed.
Another solution is to keep your files on a Iron Key or self encrypting external drive with it's own keypad, can use with any computer.
If you take care to keep a eye on your machine, never leaving it alone in a room, you should be fine.
"Find my Mac" is no guaranty it will be recovered, there is Prey which can be used to locate a stolen laptop, provided it's used and gets on the Internet. With it your only stopping the stupid thief, not a geek who will wipe the drive immediatly.
http://preyproject.com/
Remember Apple lost that iPhone prototype and it wasn't recovered with "Find my iPhone" so that shows it doesn't work all that great in reality, they are playing on your fears.
Just train yourself to be diligent, keep a eye on your stuff, or use a low cost Linux netbook for "on the go" purposes, if you lose it it's only a few hundred dollars, instead of thousands with a MacBook Pro.
Apple won't do iCloud for Snow Leopard, it's their way of force upgrading people to Lion so they lose all their investment in software and begin accepting a closed computer like iPhones and iPads.