[tinus_hn]

The person is praising Activation Lock and criticizing the fact you can skip setting it up. Yet you want to turn it into a claim Activation Lock is a bad thing.

Nothing more than the typical ‘hurr durr Apple bad’ commenting common on this site. Dull, pointless, not interesting.

[jtriangle]

I like apple products just fine to be honest, you've really missed the mark here. The issue is, as stated, you do not own the keys to the device you've purchased. That's a huge problem, and as OP's story shows, can result in the loss of access to your device.

I think apple is currently doing the best job out of everyone as far as hardware security is concerned. That does not mean their implementation is anything close to perfect, it's more that everyone else is doing a poor job, or forgoing any attempt at it in the first place.

[tinus_hn]

No, you’re missing the mark. If there is to be any kind of theft protection it is going to be a protection of the device from a user, either the proper owner or a thief.

There is no way for the device to make the distinction if the owner does not register himself as the owner and the thief does. Then the thief is the owner and the device will protect itself from the real owner. There is just no way around it. That is a mistake made by the person writing the blog, they admit it and they say Apple should have made it more obvious which is a reasonable request. Not Apple should have not made the protection, that is an unreasonable request.

You might have philosophical problems with this kind of protection, fine, then don’t buy the devices because they have it, they are advertised to have it and you can’t get them without it.

Don’t buy a device that you know doesn’t do what you want and then go whining on the internet that it doesn’t do what you want. That’s a you problem.