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@surfingalot it was impossible for the supply chains to have accommodated this, as it is impossible to predict future events accurately. this is the best of all possible worlds
@caliw BUT! apple supports something called DEP which enrolls devices in MDM automatically on install by serial! this amounts to RCE (by design) so corps can autoprovision machines automatically when they are restored.
nothing stopping apple/FBI from using this to install surveillance on your machine during install, which you cannot prevent by eg using verified "same as everyone else" media and doing an offline install, because there are no offline installs.
@caliw if the device has an activation lock tied to an apple id, when it tries to activate it will notice and prompt for authentication of that apple id before allowing activation, thus preventing reinstall on stolen-but-still-locked devices.
@caliw if you fully wipe the drive (which includes the activation data) this has been true for a while now:
https://sneak.berlin/20201204/on-trusting-macintosh-hardware/
macs need activation (including the last few years of intel macs, they have an iphone6-ish ARM security chip called T2 which handles boot) to run. they do this by receiving an activation from apple, only if the device doesn't have an activation lock ("find my") tied to an apple id.
it prevents reformatting and reinstall on stolen hardware.
@it_meirl_bot hey who is your bot human and can i get the source code? i would like to run some reddit to AP or twitter to AP bots!
@surfingalot yes nobody could have predicted this at the end of november
the white house said on or about 7 jan that there would be a website where US people could order test kits, and that they would go out by mail starting mid-january. tomorrow is the 14th.
https://news.yahoo.com/white-house-shipping-covid-19-160429433.html
no website, no tests.
@m0xee i also don't agree with your basic premise having just given them six thousand dollars for their fastest available machine
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