Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 298

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 298. Here are my solutions to them.

1: Causing to act with a tress of hair stops the thief from using your Mac.

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Activation Lock

Causing to act (activation) with a tress of hair (a lock of hair) stops the thief from using your Mac (what it does).

2: Twice 250 validates your account with two pieces of evidence.

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2FA

Twice (2) 250 (FA in hexadecimal) validates your account (authentication) with two pieces of evidence (what Two-factor authentication does).

3: Complete safety measures set in recovery.

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Full Security

Complete (full) safety measures (security) set in recovery (it’s set in Startup Security Utility in Recovery mode).

The common factor

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They’re all requirements for the Find My service.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.