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I never have and probably never will use a MAC, but you HAVE to admire the coolness to this article
http://www.macgeekery.com/gspot/2006-02/remote_destruction_of_data
Question:
Can you set up a Mac so that if it is stolen, you can easily erase the contents of its hard drive from a remote location if the stolen Mac is connected to the internet?
Answer:
Absolutely! The trouble isn't so much in the actual erasing of the data as it is in remotely accessing your computer where ever it winds up. There's a couple of remedies to that problem. Some people set up a phone-home, a script on the computer that (in the old days) would dial your home phone number if the computer was attached to a phone line. Recently, this has evolved into an email or other network ping to divulge the computer's IP address. Then, you could try to access the computer remotely to manually delete data. This has one downside - if the computer is behind someone's home firewall, all you'll have is an IP and no way to actually connect.
http://www.macgeekery.com/gspot/2006-02/remote_destruction_of_data