Apple is doing a much better job than all the rest of the PC vendors. Even those vendors that I haven't published keygens for [1] have just stupendously unsound bypass mechanisms for BIOS passwords.<p>[1] <a href="https://dogber1.blogspot.com/2009/05/table-of-reverse-engineered-bios.html" rel="nofollow">https://dogber1.blogspot.com/2009/05/table-of-reverse-engine...</a>
<i>These could be insiders working at Apple support centers or even Apple itself.</i><p>It makes me somewhat happy in a weird way to think that, even in notoriously locked-down and secretive companies like Apple, there are individuals who don't believe in and subvert the company's attempts to have sole control of its products. We have these individuals to thank for schematics, parts, and a lot of other material that feeds the third-party repair industry.
This article is the kind that makes me sit down with a cup of coffee and read it top to bottom, even though I don't understand all of the low-level assembler details (but it's understandable without that). Security is important for everyone, not just security researchers.