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Re:Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reig... by cowmoo728 on Thursday October 15, 2020 @01:23PM (#24791142)
A modern macbook pro has a T2 security chip and disk encryption on by default. It's possible that a random repair shop owner could read your emails if you turn off disk encryption or disable password auth, but that's even more far fetched.

edited It seems this particular mac doesn't have the T2 chip. It would still have disk encryption on by default.

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Re:Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reig... by stvswn on Thursday October 15, 2020 @01:27PM (#24791201)
I thought of this. The serial number of the laptop is included in the grand jury summons docs released by the New York Post. The serial number can be used to lookup the model. It was a mid-2017 macbook pro, the T2 chip started shipping in 2018 models.
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