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Re:Apple can read your iMessages (even though they’re E2E en... by judge2020 on Saturday August 28, 2021 @05:14PM (#28341551)
Your post is very light on details. Did they just place a new password on the device itself? If so, you can still use the laptop if you reinstall MacOS. It is only is rendered a brick if the attacker signed into their own iCloud account and enabled Find My, OR the attacker enabled Find My & enabled the recovery key feature on the existing Apple ID (meaning Apple can't let you log into the account without the key).
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Re:Apple can read your iMessages (even though they’re E2E en... by threatofrain on Saturday August 28, 2021 @05:29PM (#28341674)
This was on OS X with one of the older touchbar Macbook Pro models, but there's some kind of password protection which can prompt you for a password before the usual visuals of the OS booting up.
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Re:Apple can read your iMessages (even though they’re E2E en... by threeseed on Saturday August 28, 2021 @05:35PM (#28341727)
Pretty sure this is FileVault full disk encryption.

And so you can still use the computer just not keep your data.

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Re:Apple can read your iMessages (even though they’re E2E en... by Wowfunhappy on Saturday August 28, 2021 @06:57PM (#28342283)
No, it's also possible to set a firmware password, which pops up if you try to boot from any disk other than the startup disk. If you also can't log into any user accounts on the startup disk, there's no way in!
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