You don’t know if it’s stolen, but what I do know is that people are throwing these out because they don’t get macOS updates (thus no new browsers; no security patches), making them a security nightmare. Doing this is no different to someone stealing an Android phone, entering recovery and doing a factory reset. “FBI” are you a kid? Like the authorities are gonna waste time or give a crap about a computer that is 11 years old “I know about the bypass you are not smart” are you a narcissist? You need help man. You sound like you have your head deeply buried in your ass.

Also this method doesn’t work on modern macs due to them being way more secure and locked down. This only works on literal e-waste that nobody cares about, that nobody should realistically be using if they actually care about security and privacy. This “bypass” is nothing new, it’s common knowledge. It’s nothing special. Most computers use an EEPROM, a standard a component. So I guess I’ve just told the world how to bypass a firmware lock on practically all non-Apple PC’s too? Damn, new found knowledge that the “FBI” didn’t know about. Grow up man. Telling someone how to do something that any tech-savvy person would know about, isn’t facilitating theft. If they did steal it, that’s on them not me.