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MacBooks just provide their GPS location to Jamf thanks to FindMy. Sure, you could spoof that by keeping it in a Faraday cage and use a $10,000 signal generator to generate GPS signals.

But then you go to all that trouble and still have to VPN into the office from an IP outside of your office.



> MacBooks just provide their GPS location to Jamf thanks to FindMy.

1. Do MacBooks even have proper GPS hardware onboard? Honest question.

2. I wouldn't think GPS would actually work very well, given how cavernous office buildings are--no clear view of the sky for GPS. And if you get a GPS signal indoors at home, it shouldn't be too hard to block.


I don’t know if it’s real GPS or something more like how phones lookup near by wifi networks to get location, but MacBooks seem to get pinpoint precision location


I don't think macbooks have a GPS chip built-in, isn't it only wifi geolocation?




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