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by orvtech 6y ago
About 7 years ago it was the most affordable USB controller that identify them self as a HID device that I could find to brute force the EFI lock on a MacBook Pro https://orvtech.com/atacar-efi-pin-macbook-pro-en.html It wa
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by orvtech 7y ago
> ...Going forward, we will be building an option to opt out of using this partner ID... One should be opted out by default and the option should be build to opt in.
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by orvtech 7y ago
Agree is not a "Solution" but it does not has the impact that most people are imagining. I am just curious, what would be the right way for companies to tackle this, how would they know who is the family of a regime official for e
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by orvtech 7y ago
Students will still have access to the software via other means as usual, the real impact would be on cloud services I guess
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by orvtech 7y ago
Yup but lets be hones that does not count for side business (rebuscarse) which is often not declared/measured.
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by orvtech 7y ago
How many of them can actually buy a license with a national average salary of $17 a month?
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by orvtech 7y ago
So, inflation?
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by orvtech 7y ago
lovely, I wonder how much the company that did this for them charged
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by orvtech 7y ago
I'll keep tipping in cash, thank you.
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by orvtech 8y ago
It is not the same traffic pattern, Uber sees a regular stream of request keeping their caches warm, Yes they might see 2X or 3X spikes every now and them but in proportion these are smaller than the spikes that the IRS will see today.
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by orvtech 9y ago
As a Venezuelan I welcome these measures. Petro coin would not have helped the people and it was meant to launder money. Also it is a lie that is backed by PDVSA's oil [1]. [1] https://www.caracaschronicles.com/2018&#x2
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by orvtech 11y ago
It is worth to note that Venezuela is an oil producer country that used to sell electricity to Brazil, Guyana and Colombia.
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by orvtech 12y ago
They did it for the iCloud lock which can be circumvented by automatically rebooting the Mac every X tries.
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by orvtech 12y ago
I think so. The correct procedure would have been to assign another iCloud account and assign your self another PIN (lock it with your own PIN)... Then reformat it
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by orvtech 12y ago
The buyer tried this but he purchased it from one of his contractors so they did not do anything on writing.
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by orvtech 12y ago
The message on the first lock screen (iCloud padlock) read "Devuelve me la laptop y te devuelvo el dinero" which means "Give me back the laptop and I will return your money".
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by orvtech 12y ago
I did a low level reformat `dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/sdd` with the hard drive mounted on another machine before noticing that he seller had locked theachine EFI remotely.
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by orvtech 12y ago
Well saw a spike in traffic to my site and traced the source to HN... Let's hope the migration from WordPress to Pelican pays out. As mentioned by some of you this is from early 2013 but the code still works. Furthermore it has been tw
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by orvtech 13y ago
Leaving politics and ideology aside, there are precedents to consider... back in 2012 Malaysia had a similar situation but the outage was wider and more pronounced. A different precedent is the fact that phishing sites for social networks h
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by orvtech 13y ago
go on... I mean do we know their IPs? they could easily move to amazon and not provide any distinguishable Browser ID, etc..
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by orvtech 13y ago
This might take more time than my previous Teensy project "Attacking the EFI PIN Lock" but I do understand that there are people that don't want to lose the content of their hard drive so this mechanism might work for them.
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Python tweet scheduler prevent repeating tweets for your spamming needs(orvtech.com)
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High Voltage, heavy metal and geek themed songs at the Maker Faire 2013(orvtech.com)
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by orvtech 13y ago
TBH I would pay full price. I just want to have a laptop that comes with linux out of factory. PD: off-topic, I am tempted to get a cheap chromebook and install linux on it. I am currently researching
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by orvtech 13y ago
Now all we need are ultrabooks with linux
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by orvtech 13y ago
yeah, it failed for mee too a couple of times. I also got an error from Facebook twice. Probably one of their carriers or a CND issue
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by orvtech 13y ago
I did a little video on this a couple of weeks a go with a mini how to for Fedora users https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4766611
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by orvtech 14y ago
less talky talky more coding, I will supply coffee
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by orvtech 14y ago
This is awesome! now lets get some sweet Tux Racer or Mario Kart going! (please?)
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by orvtech 14y ago
This is the same Arduino sketch I used to brute-force the EFI Lock but I have implemented a set of conditional loops to wait the 1, 5 and 15 minutes cycles that the iCloud Lock PIN implements. I still use the Teensy 3 for automate this atta

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