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What's a C-number?

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chrstrbrts

Senior member
Hi,

OK. So, today I found this story on line.

It's the first one where the author details how he was unfairly accosted by the police trying to sell his MacBook on Craigslist.

I'm not really interested in the politics of police-black citizen relations here, but I am interested in what the author says in the 12th paragraph:

I was detained by Taser-point and handcuffed the entire time, while Derek was still accessing the computer. Derek tells the woman the C-number is off. Not the serial number—they were looking for some other number in the computer. (color emphasis mine)

So, what's a C-number?

Clearly, this is some sort of unique identification number akin to a serial number but different.

I know nothing about Apple products.

Is this some sort of number burned into a ROM register somewhere on the mobo?

I don't know if this helps, but he goes on to say:

When I opened the computer up again, it showed me the standard desktop. On the righthand side was the name of a company in town that does technology services. The disk utility was open, and the disk doctor app was open. Derek had checked something in my disk utility system and didn’t fully eject his hardware.

The background of the computer had a bunch of saved icons with different numbers, such as Install 10.4 or Install 10.5. The logos were for OS X Snow Leopard or OS X Mountain Lion. But a lot of them had cover pictures of Elijah Woods from The Lord of the Rings for one system, or Tom Cruise as his Top Gun character for OS X Mavericks.

Derek is the guy who agreed to meet the author in person to purchase the laptop.

He had inserted a USB upon opening the laptop just before the cops accosted the author.

So, does anyone have any idea what a C-number is?
 
This whole thing is stupid with a capital S.

A: Black dude just trying to sell his Mac.

B: Cops conduct an arrest BEFORE obtaining evidence of said stolen laptop.

C: You always ask for credentials. I could come to your back with a stun gun and say hands up.


What a cluster fuck!
 
chrstrbrts said:
Hi,

OK. So, today I found this story on line.

It's the first one where the author details how he was unfairly accosted by the police trying to sell his MacBook on Craigslist.

I'm not really interested in the politics of police-black citizen relations here, but I am interested in what the author says in the 12th paragraph:

I was detained by Taser-point and handcuffed the entire time, while Derek was still accessing the computer. Derek tells the woman the C-number is off. Not the serial number—they were looking for some other number in the computer. (color emphasis mine)

So, what's a C-number?

Clearly, this is some sort of unique identification number akin to a serial number but different.

I know nothing about Apple products.

Is this some sort of number burned into a ROM register somewhere on the mobo?

I don't know if this helps, but he goes on to say:

When I opened the computer up again, it showed me the standard desktop. On the righthand side was the name of a company in town that does technology services. The disk utility was open, and the disk doctor app was open. Derek had checked something in my disk utility system and didn’t fully eject his hardware.

The background of the computer had a bunch of saved icons with different numbers, such as Install 10.4 or Install 10.5. The logos were for OS X Snow Leopard or OS X Mountain Lion. But a lot of them had cover pictures of Elijah Woods from The Lord of the Rings for one system, or Tom Cruise as his Top Gun character for OS X Mavericks.

Derek is the guy who agreed to meet the author in person to purchase the laptop.

He had inserted a USB upon opening the laptop just before the cops accosted the author.

So, does anyone have any idea what a C-number is?
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Maybe the EMC number? http://www.everymac.com/mac-identification/index-how-to-identify-my-mac.html

Looks like serial numbers start with C? Perhaps there''s a miscommunication or something in the article referring to serial number
 
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