Access to MacBook without known password

[Mike Boreham]

To all the blinkered, closed minded people who doubted me.

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As I said earlier, useful thread. Not sure who you regard as blinkered and closed minded, but if I hadn't believed you I wouldn't haven't done my own research into how your experience could reconcile with an article about M1 Macs being scrapped because they can't be accessed.

The answer appears to be FileVault and FMM/Activation lock, so I hope you will let us know whether these were set on your machine.

If they were then I really hope you will ask Apple as suggested.

 

[burgman]

As I said earlier, useful thread. Not sure who you regard as blinkered and closed minded, but if I hadn't believed you I wouldn't haven't done my own research into how your experience could reconcile with an article about M1 Macs being scrapped because they can't be accessed.

The answer appears to be FileVault and FMM/Activation lock, so I hope you will let us know whether these were set on your machine.

If they were then I really hope you will ask Apple as suggested.

Crickets so far, I'm guessing we know the answer. So the security paper step one; Turn on File Vault and location. Given the snark in his post I guess high fives are needed for proving an unsecured computer is well unsecured.