What happens if authorities seize your laptop?

Re:What happens if authorities seize your laptop? by javajosh on Friday January 03, 2014 @01:16PM (#7007018)

Do MacBooks have the option to password protect the BIOS?

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Re:What happens if authorities seize your laptop? by ddinh on Friday January 03, 2014 @01:34PM (#7007136)

Yes, you can set an EFI password on Macbooks: https://support.apple.com/kb/HT1352

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Re:What happens if authorities seize your laptop? by javajosh on Friday January 03, 2014 @03:17PM (#7007826)

Thanks. But it looks like the "Firmware Password Utility" is not available by default in OSX 10.9, and those instructions only describe how to get it for OSX 10.5 and below. Thoughts?

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Re:What happens if authorities seize your laptop? by ulms on Friday January 03, 2014 @04:02PM (#7008106)

You have to boot into your recovery partition (Cmd+R on boot), then there's a menu option to set the firmware password, which will be active on the next reboot.

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