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Apple EFI firmware passwords and the SCBO myth

by fG! reverse.put.as published 2016-06-2522 min read

My original goal when I started poking around Apple’s EFI implementation was to find a way to reset a MacBook’s firmware password. My preliminary research found references to a “magical” SCBO file that could be loaded onto a USB flash drive and booted to remove the password. The normal process workflow is to first…
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