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Nowadays they make them dependant on the serial number of the device, the idea being if you get locked out of your own device you can contact the manufacturer w
by DaSHacka 3y ago
Nowadays they make them dependant on the serial number of the device, the idea being if you get locked out of your own device you can contact the manufacturer with the serial number and recieve the override code.
Quite predictably however, some motivated individuals have reverse-engineered how these codes are generated and made online tools that can generate them as well(1).
[1] https://bios-pw.org/ https://bios-pw.org/
- jeroenhd 3y agoI used this to make a Dell laptop sold without password usable again. There was a setting to disable the override password, but that was left disabled. I do wonder what the point of this secure password is if you leave a backdoor password enabled anyway.