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mastodon 4.7.3Aerospace Engineer, #Perl #Cplusplus #C #x86, compilers, #cryptography lover, vi, #HPC with MPI, #VR, reverse engineer, internet enthusiast, software-defined radio #SDR,#cars. GPG Fingerprint: 5A37 4516 7680 C169 E294 73B9 4FB1 8EBE CE2F 852B
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@codemonkeymike I am interested to see if you have tried this method
https://mrmacintosh.com/how-to-restore-bridgeos-on-a-t2-mac-how-to-put-a-mac-into-dfu-mode/
And
https://mrmacintosh.com/how-to-remove-mac-firmware-password-new-way-if-you-have-a-2018-2020-t2-mac/
You need a second Mac that works and you control the one with a firmware lock using Apple Configurator. I have converted Apple Macs to run Linux but all of them have been 2017 or earlier.
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@tindie who are the new owners ? clearly it is a business, so the owners cannot be anonymous. You want to hide that info or you want the public to find that info for you and "reveal" it ?
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@codemonkeymike did you try https://theapplewiki.com/wiki/Checkra1n their site says they have experimental support for T2 processors.
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@slyka how can I get/buy the assembled hardware board ? I have a 5” B&W TV that could be used for something more maybe.
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@codemonkeymike is there a way in your experience to extract the hash of the firmware password from the chip via SPI bus or similar ? Then run hashcat on it. It’s excessive for sure, but maybe a solution can be devised somehow. Extract some hash or firmware and find an exploit or something and find a working solution eventually. In the end the chip is an oracle and something is verifying the firmware password which has to be stored in memory.
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@channelOwen@fosstodon.org which distribution? Sounds like a prior bad package update failed and is trying to complete it. Sounds like a Ubuntu problem
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@channelOwen@fosstodon.org text editors are not doing that. The package manager is doing something from a prior update that was probably incomplete. You can install the text editor with apt and see. Which text editor are you installing ?
