tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-14:58489 Monica Monica 2024-02-21T21:56:16Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-14:58489:2130277 2024-02-21T21:55:56Z 2024-02-21T21:56:16Z public 7 <p>Dear brain trust,</p> <p>My father had a laptop, an old MacBook. My mother would like to know what's on it. It's password-protected. I've been unable to guess the password, even knowing some of his other passwords and some patterns he used.</p> <p>I have the passwords to his two desktop computers (iMacs), but also can't get in via network share (access denied). I have his cell phone, which should let me get into his iCloud account (that's the second factor). I have the impression that none of that will help.</p> <p>Is there any way I can override the laptop's password and get in anyway? Or connect an external drive and make a copy somehow? I'm willing to take the laptop and a copy of the death certificate to an Apple store, except that I don't know if it's technically <em>possible</em> to get in (without damaging the contents, which is the whole point of the operation). I mean, we'd all like security to actually be secure, so this shouldn't be easy, but is there something between "easy" and "impossible" that I can try?</p> <p>The laptop is at my mom's house, so I can't test things immediately, but I'm looking for any clues that could help on my next visit.</p> <br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=cellio&ditemid=2130277" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments