Personally, I think it’s an interesting move. It makes about as much sense as Apple selling Chromecast or Fire in their stores. Granted, so long as any customer actually has to make a CHOICE, people are going to bitch because Company A doesn’t support Product B and Company C is shacking up with Company F to ruin…

The only power the government has is the military - which is comprised of men and women of the country.

Who says slavery is wrong? Is there a moral dictator that determined this? If so, what else does he say is wrong? I’m sure he’d have an opinion on countless other topics as well.

Remember one thing - the military is made of American men and women - many of which who have families of their own. If the rebellion were large enough, these military men and women would be ordered to betray their own families for the sake of the State. I’m sure some of them would ignorantly obey that order. Most, I…

Intelligent politicians…

I see what you did there

How cute, you insist on being right even when you’re not. That’s adorable.

Did I mention how glad I am to know that YOUR opinion is apparently the only CORRECT opinion? After all, you did mention that most other opinions will be the incorrect one. So thank you for letting us all know that you, and you alone, are the only one with the correct opinion on everything. :D

You may have my guns when you remove them from my cold, dead, hands. :)

Just because you're a cashier at an Apple Store doesn't make you an expert. I've used this tactic on multiple post 2011 MacBooks and the firmware password vanished. You might wanna ask your manager if you can borrow Macs for Dummies again. You're a little behind the times, Mr. Apple Employee.

So? Pull the battery. No matter what generation you have, removing the system battery will wipe the password.

I think they're typically more susceptible simply because most of them, like Windows users, are uninformed and choose ignorance over knowledge. Windows users KNOW their platform is plagued with malware - it always has been. Macs, historically, were as well before OS X. When OS X was released, it was a few years before…

or Homebrew, which I personally prefer ;)

AVG was the pick of the litter in the early 2000s, especially on Windows. Unfortunately, as with most "classic" solutions, it's become bloated, slow, and practically useless in it's old age. I think some of these apps let the fame go to their git HEADs. :/

Glad to hear you're running the firewall! That's one AMAZINGLY SIMPLE step that so many people never even consider.

Personally, I don't think there SHOULD be an antivirus vs no antivirus debate, regardless of your OS. Unless you run an operating system that you personally wrote the code for, you should have anti-malware protection in place. Personally, I prefer ClamAV simply because, unlike Sophos, in my opinion, it stays out of…

Requires Firewire and the assumption that the target drive is not encrypted.

Firmware passwords are super simple to reset on modern Macs, what are you smoking?

I don't no anyone who uses/d TrueCrypt without some sort of technical background. FileVault, yes. TrueCrypt, no.

Modern FileVault and Time Machine render this problem obsolete. Just a heads up and FYI for anyone reading this article in the future.