Hi everybody, thanks for this forum.

I'm hoping you can assist me with the following issue.

A community college sold some old Macs to a used Mac vendor, who sold one of them to me. The community college didn't remove their MDM profiles before they sold the Macs, and as I now know, the vendor doesn't check machines for much of anything before reselling them.

Point being, the MDM profiles are still on the used Mac I purchased, which effectively means it's still under the control of the community college IT department.

My questions are:

1) If/when the community college removes the MDM profiles from their end, will they ever be able to reinstall them? Can I be assured that once the profiles are removed my Mac is then secure?

2) I'm pursuing this diplomatically for the moment, but it's going slow, and may not work. Is there any way to remove the MDM profiles and secure this machine from my end?

Many thanks for any advice, much appreciated!