> then in theory, it should be very difficult for someone to reformat and fency your stolen laptop. The solution is to attach a SPI programmer (eg a RasPi) and

> then in theory, it should be very difficult for someone to reformat and fency your stolen laptop. The solution is to attach a SPI programmer (eg a RasPi) and flush the UEFI variable store. UEFI will reset to factory defaults, incl Secure Boot. The complicated part of that is opening the device.