MacbookPro14 Hacked at Rom Level

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MacbookPro14 Hacked at Rom Level

I keep reading all of these posts where people have the same issue and the only response they get is “You are Paranoid”….except this has been going on for 11 years now. It doesn’t even matter which platform…Apple,Android,PC,Windows,Linux. First off, they make sure none of my computers work so I can’t fix my phones or iPads. All of my “Updates” are pushed from them. If I get a new device it is detected via parallels, cloned, and pushed to the device via virtual machine with them as “root”. Every device I have is getting first rom disk and writing there own Cpios file stating root device. Using Serial Device to write to every device. My MacBook was brand new in 2016 and as soon as I gave Apple my phone number for AppleCare…I was screwed. The first boot came up with picture of my last Mac and Apple still pretended I was crazy. I told them I needed a reimage…they just reinstalled os. Since my MacBook only boots into “recovery” where the base image is hacked, I cannot delete it, nor can I reinstall from internet recovery or a usb. All the files are developer files, you can delete but they return with every boot and change to get stronger. I have 19 disks in which I can’t remove, no real internet… but even with Wi-Fi off or disconnect internet, they still have a connection. I finally was able to download a system image via internet, but it went to /dev/null somehow. Just wasn’t there. Apple is not helpful. IT Specialists take one look and say, “Oh, wow….they are good! Hey Good Luck with that!” I have a graveyard of bricked devices, at this moment 7 computers that simply don’t work. Why is it that I see 112 “Me Too’s” with every question referring to this same thing and then the same obviously stupid response’s “That’s not possible!” When it obviously is and more and more people are simply helpless. You call your ISP or providers of devices or google… I get passed around with Comcast…”You are in the wrong department, let me transfer you…” and after an hour they just hang up in the middle of a “transfer”. Somebody has to have an answer. All the files are union so booting with Linux and adding toram to boot parameters should help, but after about 5 minutes it all freezes and you have to reboot all over. Doesn’t matter anyways, because whatever you boot with still has the same “pre boot specifications” that persist, almost like it’s part of the firmware and never goes away. I can’t have anything, a bank account, a card, an email account that lasts more than a month, anything important shows up a month later. My text messages “decide” if it’s important, and if it is, never show. And no device, platform, is safe. I would have to throw away all of my devices, change my name, and move at the exact same time to get rid of it. I can’t have social media, Gmail, etc. Do you know how hard it is to do anything like this. Im not rich, important, etc….so??? Any advice anyone??

Posted on Oct 30, 2024 4:02 PM

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John Galt

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Oct 31, 2024 7:59 AM in response to Me_andmeplayingmeatameshow

Me_andmeplayingmeatameshow wrote:

I keep reading all of these posts where people have the same issue ...

So have I, and they all have the same characteristics: Long runon paragraphs containing too many grammatical errors to decipher along with lots of allegations containing zero actionable information.

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Rudegar

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Oct 31, 2024 12:25 PM in response to Me_andmeplayingmeatameshow

if what is compromised is your account then they compromise will follow to all devices you use said accounts with

If you think your Apple Account has been compromised - Apple Support

they usuallly get to your accounts by phishing Phishing - Wikipedia

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Recognize and avoid social engineering schemes including phishing messages, phony support calls, and other scams - Apple Support

and throwing away all your physical devices will never resolve the issues if the new devices you purchase gets the same accounts added to them

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Mac Jim ID

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Oct 31, 2024 12:39 PM in response to Me_andmeplayingmeatameshow

I don't think a computer is for you. In addition, I would stick to a landline phone and give up the technology altogether. If you truly believe what you write, then it does not appear that the devices you are using are doing any good anyway. Give it up and you won't ever have to worry about it again and it will be healthier for you by not creating the anxiety. Nothing personal, just looking out for your best interest.

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Oct 31, 2024 12:45 PM in response to Me_andmeplayingmeatameshow

Your posting also uses text formatting and a presentation and includes the sorts of details that usually mean the case can't and won't get resolved around here.

If you're actually the target for firmware-level exploits, you're also undoubtedly aware you're an immensely-valuable target, and well outside of the skills and assistance that can be offered around here, or that can be offered pretty much anywhere outside of organizations with dedicated skills and staff.

And if you've been having security issues for eleven years as reported, those issues are not going to get resolved around here. Not today, if ever. Why not? You've undoubtedly gotten eleven years of suggestions — undoubtedly with similar and well-meaning suggestions offered for each of those postings and support calls and related — and you have then acted and implemented those and other suggestions appropriately over the years. Yet whatever is arising here persists.

Whether this is an exceedingly persistent and immensely well-funded adversary, or maybe somebody local and fond of gaslighting, or some other cause entirely, nobody around here can make that determination.

As for your "you are paranoid", those sorts of diagnoses are well outside the purview of what can be offered around here.

But again, your reported eleven years of issues are just not going to get resolved by forum postings.

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