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This policy is to prevent people from selling their laptop to someone (who sets up an account with Find My Mac) and then stealing it back and requesting Apple t

• jojobas 3y ago
  Selling and stealing back can't possibly happen often enough to warrant that, can it?
  • thih9 3y ago
    With an attack vector this significant, frequency matters less. Would you want to rely on a laptop if some third party (original owner) could reassign it to themselves?
    • jojobas 3y ago
      This warrants signing some paperwork when purchasing, not including a hardware rootkit at the factory.
      • thih9 3y ago
        The hardware rootkit is there for a different reason, I was only saying why they don’t allow original owners to circumvent that.
• Asooka 3y ago
  That sounds only slightly less plausible than using it to hack and blow up a nuclear power plant. A scenario against which the MacBook has zero protections in place.
• BlackFly 3y ago
  No policy they put in place will actually coincide with the legal definition of ownership though. In many jurisdictions, there are conditions where you can lawfully purchase stolen property, there are some caveat emptor issues, but assuming the lock occurs after purchase, Apple could in theory be compelled to unlock the laptop for the new owner. There are all kinds of other less dubious ownership transfers as well. Apple just isn't in a position to arbitrate them all while the law recognizes a second hand market.