In my experience dealing with iphones from departed staff, if the iphone is locked to an icloud account there's essentially nothing you can do to get access to it. If you do a DFU restore of the firmware it still comes up with an activation lock. Pretty sure that's what this article is describing for the new apple silicon laptops.

And that's fine. But if you (or perhaps your employer) locked the machine, and it's stolen, it can't be used by the thief.

I "own" one of those. My previous employers never asked me for the laptop back. Even after I send them email about providing me with a fedex label. It was roughtly 2 years ago.

I thought that a good old format would take care of that, but no.

I did saw T2 removal tutorial on youtube thought. You need to remove the T2 chip , implant a new one and flash it.

I'm kinda disappointed on HN to not provide more information on that process.