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Hi, I'm selling a broken Macbook Pro on eBay and the person is asking for the serial number. Is this safe?
Safe to give out Macbook Serial Number to eBay potential buyer?
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They’ll be using it to check the AppleCare status. I don’t think there’s anything else they can do with it.
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It can be used to spoof a real mac when building a Hackintosh, so certain features/services work, but TBF you can just randomly generate a serial with the app in the final stages of building an EFI etc, so I'd doubt anyone would bother stealing a real one.
Well this is a 7 year old broken Macbook, I think it'll be fine, thanks guys
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Haha true, I was more just answering in general as the question was asked
