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DIY tinkerer invents MacBook tool that breaks Apple’s repair locks (www.404media.co)
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DIY tinkerer invents MacBook tool that breaks Apple’s repair locks::“To whoever it is at Apple who decided to not make this available to technicians, ‘Fuck you, we win.’”

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[–] Touching_Grass 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Even though I bought it. It's illegal to tinker with some components. And we're all OK enough with it.

I mean how did this get past the "Klaus Schwab is eating your children" crowd meanwhile we can't legally reverse engineer things we bought