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Re:Apple pays out millions to student after repair techs sha... by Wowfunhappy on Monday June 07, 2021 @11:47AM (#27423944)
It could mean that they just won't do as much testing if they don't know the password, which means there's a greater risk you'll get your computer back and discover there's still something wrong with it.

Which might also be a perfectly reasonable tradeoff, but there's nothing inherently nefarious about it. And people can make different choices depending on the amount of private information on their laptop.

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Re:Apple pays out millions to student after repair techs sha... by onedognight on Monday June 07, 2021 @11:56AM (#27424051)
They NetBoot in order to run diagnostics. They don’t need your password.
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Re:Apple pays out millions to student after repair techs sha... by michaelt on Monday June 07, 2021 @12:06PM (#27424176)
The article is about someone's iphone being repaired - surely you can't netboot a locked iphone?
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Re:Apple pays out millions to student after repair techs sha... by saagarjha on Monday June 07, 2021 @12:37PM (#27424600)
It should still be able to run diagnostics.
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Re:Apple pays out millions to student after repair techs sha... by Wowfunhappy on Monday June 07, 2021 @11:57AM (#27424067)
Automated tests don't catch everything.
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Re:Apple pays out millions to student after repair techs sha... by patwolf on Monday June 07, 2021 @01:34PM (#27425433)
I once refused to give my MBP password to the technician at the Apple store for some hardware repair, and he said that they just wouldn't be able to verify the repair completely. I'm not sure how true that was, but it did catch me off guard that they would even ask for a password.
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