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>I had a BIOS (or whatever the Mac equivalent is) password set, I think you're referring to the Open Firmware Password, which can be set to prevent the compute

>I had a BIOS (or whatever the Mac equivalent is) password set, I think you're referring to the Open Firmware Password, which can be set to prevent the computer booting from an external drive or booting from a swapped internal drive, without first entering this password

floatboth 6y ago
"Open Firmware" is from the PowerPC Mac era ;)
- Normille 6y ago
  You could be right. It seems they've dropped the 'Open' and it's just called 'Firmware Password' nowadays: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204455 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204455