On Saturday, December 4, 2004, at 10:21 AM, Andrew Kershaw wrote:
But it's interesting that the password can be bypassed if the user pulls a stick of RAM and resets PRAM 3 times thereafter... Do you think that's an Apple-designed back door?
Yes, absolutely. Otherwise a random stranger, disgruntled soon-to-be-ex-employee, or you, in a particularly forgetful moment, could go up to the computer and render it useless.
A firmware or bios password has to have *some* means of non-authenticated reset.
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