MacbookPro14 Hacked at Rom Level

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.

Me_andmeplayingmeatameshow wrote:

Then I’d play my Chess piece and watch their response. Every night my mac would say to my hacker, “Goodnight Gracie”.

Which is why you are not taken seriously. Engineers are funny fellows and their humor shows in the log files that you are reading. Your Mac is not saying Goodnight Gracie to a hacker, it is simply a log that the engineer prints when a connection is closed. People see words like "stingray", "pegasus", and "root" and jump to the conclusion that they have been hacked.

http://jonnywot.blogspot.com/2009/11/interesting-new-easter-egg-in-mac-os.html

Technology is not for everyone and yes bad things can happen when you fall for a phishing attack and give your password away inadvertently. Nothing can stop you from doing that. Since technology has been the source of your problems for 11 years, you would be much better without it.

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

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.

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.

You’ve already been given the steps — robust passwords, two-factor authentication, reset without restore, and other entirely appropriate suggestions — and have already undoubtedly considered and followed those suggestions as appropriate for your situation, and the reported issues have remained unresolved.

There might be suggestions to be had after one or two unexpected password changes. Not ongoing for hundreds. Not thousands.

Steps toward securing that might be offered after days or weeks of reported misbehaviors, too. Not ongoing for months. Not years.

Whether this is an well-funded and well-equipped adversary, or maybe this is gaslighting, or some other cause entirely, again, nobody around here can make that determination. But whatever is arising here is not going to get resolved with forum postings.

You think you're being funny, but you're not.

The topic title alone tells everyone you're not serious and are just trying to waste everyone's time.

How do I know that? Look up the meaning of ROM, and then try to explain how such a chip could possibly be hacked.