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It is if you are a company that needs to refurbish laptops from employees that have left, which is a thing. They just hand in their laptop but they might not be
by jillesvangurp 4y ago
It is if you are a company that needs to refurbish laptops from employees that have left, which is a thing. They just hand in their laptop but they might not be around to do things like wiping their laptop properly. There are all sorts of legitimate reasons to want to do that and wipe a laptop. There are also companies leasing laptops that need to worry about what happens when the lease ends and the laptop comes back. Their target audience is a mix of all sorts of users, most of which are not necessarily be capable of erasing their own laptop properly.
Because of this article, I'm updating our internal employee off-boarding check list to make sure we don't end up with a lot of bricked hardware.
- gowld 4y agoIf it's a corporate-owned device, you have the password. You should update the recycling checklist to unlock the hardware.
- lizknope 4y agoI will state that I have never used Macs in a corporate environment. Every Windows laptop I have ever had has an employee has so much extra corporate security software on it that they can remotely lock me out, reset it, wipe it, etc. They don't need the password I use for anything. Does Apple or any third parties make software to do this? Essentially the T2 security chip needs to allow 2 passwords so that both the user AND corporate IT can reset the machine etc. If a company is leasing laptops then they need to treat this process like an apartment security deposit. When I rented my first apartment I had to pay one month's rent up front. I moved out 4 years later and they inspected my apartment for damage and after they found nothing wrong they gave me my original security deposit back.