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Author's note: I was the kid in high school who openly made deals with the right people to work around the web filter. I know how to deal with local management like MS AD and Apple Remote Desktop and have seen how remote management has evolved. I'm not new to this realm. Once I've written off something as unbreakable, it's not practical.

The MDM is tied to Google using the device S/N and is enforced with a local firmware lock. Unless you reflash the firmware from scratch (which is nearly impossible without a dump, as Google does not publicly release the reference BIOS files used by all of the Chromebook OEMs), find out how to reflash it (each OEM does this differently and this is also confidential beyond Google's public-facing info) and change the serial number (EEPROM programmer required with Chromebooks newer then the "CR-48" generation; Google fixed the CLI exploit and added an option to block the developer mode on the newer models even with the WP screw removed) there's no way to remove it without a new motherboard. It's effectively the same as MDM like Apple Business Manager and Jamf, which are tied to a provisioning ID unique to the machine and S/N it is associated with.

Suppose there was a way to do this without losing the Chromebook BIOS and make it like new without custom hacking like flashing a standard PC BIOS (and losing Chrome OS). Do you not think I'd break into a few of the reasonably new ones to mock people who think these are secure as a "trophy" and laugh at how much of it is security theater, given my history of making deals in high school and forcing sysadmins on power trips to take an L? And I laughed at the security of Chromebooks with one of the teachers I know who would expect me to do it? I did this in high school for sport to play Halo CE at school LAN party style on WinXP to work around the district WAN port blocking while making the web filter look like the joke it is. The only way this gets removed is by the ORIGINAL OWNER unless you change the motherboard. School surplus is usually more trouble than it is worth; they're either EOL or abused in many ways. Looking at it wrong could break it unexpectedly, and you now need to rebuild a dirt-cheap surplus laptop at the same price as a replacement unit.

If anyone is qualified to debunk this, it's someone who knows what they're doing, has done a few of the dirty jobs, and has hands-on time getting it done. Simply put, Anything anyone pushes as a "fix" to remove the Chromebook MDM is either referring to a "CR-48," which is CLI exploit-friendly (as long as developer mode and terminal aren't pre-blocked), AND ALL MODELS USING IT ARE EOL NOW, or selling you a lie. The solution is a new motherboard, the end.

Did you buy the computer?

If not and you still are in school and the computer is still on the property of the district, you could get into a lot of trouble for this type of action.

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