NVRAM Showing Questionable Payload Variables... Can anyone verify if this is normal?
I used the terminal command in macOS 'nvram -xp':
student:~ admin$ nvram -xp
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>ALS_Data</key>
<data>
AKs=
</data>
<key>LocationServicesEnabled</key>
<data>
AQ==
</data>
<key>SmcFlasherResult</key>
<data>
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==
</data>
<key>SystemAudioVolume</key>
<data>
VA==
</data>
<key>SystemAudioVolumeDB</key>
<data>
6w==
</data>
<key>Test_ALS_Data</key>
<data>
AQA=
</data>
<key>backlight-level</key>
<data>
2Qo=
</data>
<key>bluetoothActiveControllerInfo</key>
<data>
j4KsBQAAAAAzFEjXBbzp6g==
</data>
<key>bluetoothInternalControllerInfo</key>
<data>
j4KsBQAAMxRI1wW86eo=
</data>
<key>boot-gamma</key>
<data>
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</data>
<key>efi-apple-payload0</key>
<data>
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PjwvYXJyYXk+AA==
</data>
<key>efi-apple-payload0-data</key>
<data>
AgEMANBBAwoAAAAAAQEGAAUcAQEGAAAAAxIKAAAAAAAAAAQBKgABAAAAKAAAAAAAAAAA
QAYAAAAAALSKGkdl6jBNo/PdaOCgJKUCAgQEZgBcAEUARgBJAFwAQQBQAFAATABFAFwA
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AEQANgA5ADcANwBFADUALgBzAG0AYwAAAH//BAA=
</data>
<key>efi-apple-payload1</key>
<data>
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PgA=
</data>
<key>efi-apple-payload1-data</key>
<data>
AgEMANBBAwoAAAAAAQEGAAUcAQEGAAAAAxIKAAAAAAAAAAQBKgABAAAAKAAAAAAAAAAA
QAYAAAAAALSKGkdl6jBNo/PdaOCgJKUCAgQEVgBcAEUARgBJAFwAQQBQAFAATABFAFwA
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AHMAbQBjAAAAf/8EAA==
</data>
<key>efi-apple-payload2</key>
<data>
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YXk+AA==
</data>
<key>efi-apple-payload2-data</key>
<data>
AgEMANBBAwoAAAAAAQEGAAUcAQEGAAAAAxIKAAAAAAAAAAQBKgABAAAAKAAAAAAAAAAA
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AGUALgBzAG0AYwAAAH//BAA=
</data>
<key>efi-apple-payload3</key>
<data>
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PjwvYXJyYXk+AA==
</data>
<key>efi-apple-payload3-data</key>
<data>
AgEMANBBAwoAAAAAAQEGAAUcAQEGAAAAAxIKAAAAAAAAAAQBKgABAAAAKAAAAAAAAAAA
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</data>
<key>efi-apple-recovery</key>
<data>
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</data>
<key>efi-backup-boot-device</key>
<data>
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</data>
<key>efi-backup-boot-device-data</key>
<data>
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</data>
<key>efi-backup-boot-device-data-data</key>
<data>
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</data>
<key>efi-boot-device</key>
<data>
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</data>
<key>efi-boot-device-data</key>
<data>
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</data>
<key>fmm-computer-name</key>
<data>
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</data>
<key>fmm-mobileme-token-FMM</key>
<data>
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<key>fmm-mobileme-token-FMM-BridgeHasAccount</key>
<data>
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</data>
<key>prev-lang:kbd</key>
<data>
ZW4tVVM6MA==
</data>
</dict>
</plist>
Solution 1:
It all looks pretty normal, as far as I can tell. Yours looks not dissimilar to mine. The data is encoding in base64, and decoded gives things like:
<array><dict><key>IOMatch</key><dict><key>IOProviderClass</key><string>IOMedia</string><key>IOPropertyMatch</key><dict><key>UUID</key><string>471A8AB4-EA65-4D30-A3F3-DD68E0A024A5</string></dict></dict><key>BLLastBSDName</key><string>disk0s1</string></dict><dict><key>IOEFIDevicePathType</key><string>MediaFilePath</string><key>Path</key><string>\EFI\APPLE\FIRMWARE\MBA61.scap</string></dict></array>�