Often the previous owners are corporations or schools who buy and sell the machines in bulk and aren't interested in helping recyclers or refurbishers unlock them.
“Now we're seeing quantity come through because companies with internal 3-year product cycles are starting to dump their 2018/2019s, and inevitably a lot of those are locked,” he said. Motherboard first reported on this problem in 2020, but Bumstead said it’s gotten worse recently. You can’t even boot locked 2018+ MacBooks to an external device because by default the MacBook security app disables external booting.” “And now the boards are locked, so they are essentially worthless. “The progression has been, first you had certifications with unrealistic data destruction requirements, and that caused recyclers to pull drives from machines and sell without drives, but then as of 2016 the drives were embedded in the boards, so they started pulling boards instead,” he said. These computers often end up at recycling centers after corporations go out of business or buy all new machines.īumstead told Motherboard that every year Apple makes life a little harder for the second hand market. Instead of finding these machines a second home, Bumstead and others are dismantling them and selling the parts. In these cases, the data is wiped, but cannot be assigned to a new user, making them effectively worthless. Responsible recyclers and refurbishers wipe the data from used devices before selling them on. Regardless, a bypassed Mac is a hacked machine, which reverts to the lock if wiped and reset, so it is not ethical to sell bypassed macs in the retail environment.”
“Many bypassers have claimed solutions to T2 macs (I have not tried or confirmed they work…I am skeptical) but they admit they have had no success with M1. But whereas T2 with activation lock is basically impossible to overcome, bypass developers are finding the m1/m2 chips with activation lock even more difficult,” Bumstead said. “The functionality of T2 is built into Apple silicon, so it’s the same situation. “Even the jailbreakers/bypassers don’t have a solution, and they probably won’t because Apple proprietary chips are so relatively formidable.” When Apple released its own silicon with the M1, it integrated the features of the T2 into those computers. “Like it has been for years with recyclers and millions of iPhones and iPads, it’s pretty much game over with MacBooks now-there’s just nothing to do about it if a device is locked,” Bumstead told Motherboard. It’s a boon for security and privacy and a plague on the second hard market. First introduced in 2018, the laptop makes it impossible for anyone who isn’t the original owner to log into the machine.
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