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$10 programmer saves BIOS-locked Lenovo ThinkPads from the dump


Many cheap company ThinkPads come with supervisor passwords and often end up as e-waste. Ukrainian YouTuber Hileeq shows how easy it is to bypass the password with a $10 programmer.

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