Can Find My Mac still persist after...?


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9 years 5 months ago #62 by Jenna_Boner
Hello all,

I have recently acquired a macbook air 2011 off of ebay. In order to avoid second-hand mac issues relating to icloud remote shut downs, I have performed the following actions:

-Secure erase (using parted magic), deleted old partition and created a new partition (using gparted).
-Cleared PRAM/NVRAM using keyboard procedure a few times, after HD was already wiped.
-Installed Ubuntu (I will be using Ubuntu, and Windows through VB).

My question is if there is any way that Find My Mac capabilities could have persisted, and would it be able to shut me down if I connect the macbook to the internet and the seller (or sellers seller) decides to lock the device on icloud?.


Thanks,

Jenna Boner :)

Any other info you need I'll be glad to provide.

P.S.:I guess it can be asssumed that the device did not have a firmware password, or such capability was not active at the time, since I was able to plug in a USB and load parted magic.

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9 years 5 months ago #63 by Jenna_Boner
I have posted this inquiry on hackmac as well, but thought it would be helpful to get an even more specialized opinion on the matter. Thanks again for your time and for everything ya'll do for the community.

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9 years 5 months ago #64 by thaGH05T
I would say no there is no way for this to be be locked from the cloud as cloud talks to the application level before it tells hardware to do anything. BTW you will see me on Hackmac.org as well. I have been an avid user there working on EFI technologies and solutions. Any other questions PLEASE feel free to ask. And more this as resolved if the answer I have given was sufficient.

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9 years 4 months ago #87 by wegface
yes, not possible. Happy days.

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