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<blockquote data-quote="brairden" data-source="post: 1214665" data-attributes="member: 166628">Wrong.&nbsp; Enabling an open firmware password prevents you from swapping the hard drive and booting the computer.&nbsp; You can't do target mode or boot from external either. If you do not know the firmware password, the computer will not function.... unless you know how to bypass it.&nbsp; That info is kind of tough to find on the internet....you basically need to google &quot;resetting open firmware password on an EFI firmware mac&quot;.&nbsp; Most criminals wouldn't spend that much time researching and trying to break it (unless they were tech savvy).&nbsp; Now some thief will probably run across this post and figure it out. <img src="/mac_images/images/smilies/Undecided.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":\" title="Undecided&nbsp; &nbsp; :\" data-shortname=":\" />I do not have the firmware password enabled on my machine, but it basically goes everywhere that I do.&nbsp; Security is not really a big concern of mine because my risk is low.&nbsp; If you are going to have your machines in a high risk environment, I would advise enabling it.&nbsp; It can only help in the case of a theft.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="brairden, post: 1214665, member: 166628"] Wrong. Enabling an open firmware password prevents you from swapping the hard drive and booting the computer. You can't do target mode or boot from external either. If you do not know the firmware password, the computer will not function.... unless you know how to bypass it. That info is kind of tough to find on the internet....you basically need to google "resetting open firmware password on an EFI firmware mac". Most criminals wouldn't spend that much time researching and trying to break it (unless they were tech savvy). Now some thief will probably run across this post and figure it out. :\ I do not have the firmware password enabled on my machine, but it basically goes everywhere that I do. Security is not really a big concern of mine because my risk is low. If you are going to have your machines in a high risk environment, I would advise enabling it. It can only help in the case of a theft. [/QUOTE]

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