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Re:Apple Silicon Macs can't boot from external drive if inte... by dirkg on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @09:15PM (#29089935)
the motivation for soldered everything is profit margins and the ripoff prices for upgrades.

Not security. There is no additional security here

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Re:Apple Silicon Macs can't boot from external drive if inte... by threeseed on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @10:31PM (#29090452)
Of course there is additional security.

You can't just physically remove the SSD from the machine, place it in another and brute force the encryption.

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Re:Apple Silicon Macs can't boot from external drive if inte... by xxs on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @02:53AM (#29091783)
of course you can desolder and move the chips - all you need is a hot air station and some flux. It's of course harder but nothing even remotely close to breaking the encryption itself, like orders of magnitude easier - any hobbist can do it.

It's another story, a part of the encryption is stored in yet another place on Macs, which it'd be still stored there if the SSD could be moved in/out.

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