No, it doesn't work that way, Okie. The Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002 is a Federal Statute that controls what happens if the STOCKHOLDERS are injured because a corporation LIES to the public. It becomes TOO OBVIOUS and someone will be punished. . . and whose name is on those claims. Tim Cook's. He would go to prison and he would be fined. There is no wiggle room, Okie. Sorry, you just do not have a clue where Financial Crimes are concerned under SOX. Hell, a CEO of a FISHING boat company was sent to federal prison under SOX for making a statement the government decided was false (it wasn't) but he still spent 8 years in prison and lost his majority holdings in his own company defending himself, before an Appeals court finally reversed the lower court and censured the Federal Prosecutor for even bringing the ridiculous case. Basically Sarbanes Oxley has teeth.
We were talking about iOS and iPhones and iPads, but if you want to discuss OS X, fine. Physical possession of my new MacBook would get you NO WHERE. I have it locked down with complex passwords. The Drive is 256 bit AES standard encrypted with File Vault with a sixteen character complex passcode.
The new MacBook's don't have a Thunderbolt port, so even if Apple had not closed the Thunderstrike vulnerability two months ago, that wouldn't get you in. There used to be a way to change the passwords on OS X Macs, but NOW it requires the owner's AppleID and complex password, and mine, in particular is protected by two-factor notification, which means to even use that AppleID requires I authenticate the access by entering a six digit code sent to my iPhone. So, unless you ALSO have access to my iPhone simultaneously with access to my MacBook, you simply won't get in.
I do know what I am talking about. Several years ago, I was able to breach a Windows7 Pro laptop that had been hardened and "secured" by the US Air Force Academy's IT department for one of their cadets who had forgotten his password—they are required to change them every month. He'd come home for the holidays and had a 50 page paper to finish before returning and couldn't get into his work, because he could NOT recall what he had set his new password to. I got him in.
Frankly, I did not find it that difficult. LOL!
Perhaps, you could physically open the case and stick some hardware in there, but how would the software work with it? You still cannot install any software. Besides, have you seen how cramped the MacBooks are for space?