Hilariously, I can actually satisfy BOTH of those modern circumstances, since I am a tech-head. (with inefficiently wasted skill levels spent on Mech, Cleric, Alchemist, and Healer)
My issue is that everyone wants me to fix their "Locked down tighter than a nun's panties" iPhone, which is 99% "Not possible without your password, which you have forgotten, so please dont ask me again-- No, this is because the enforcement is done at apple's servers, and NO, they do not have backdoors they can use to reset it. Dont bother asking them, the freaking FBI, CIA, NSA, and pals have been pestering them for that exact kind of service for nearly a decade now, and not gotten it."
But if it is Android, there are ways around it, and I know many of them-- and can successfully unlock a locked down phone about 50% of the time.
Windows passwords I can offline reset 100% of the time, since there is a handy tool for that. (
Windows NT offlline password and registry editor.) Just boot it, say "yes, blank the password", and that shit is yours. Because this could be used for nefarious enterprises, I always demand that they prove to me that they are the rightful owner before I do that service though. "My kids think they are so damn clever" I am totally down with-- but "I got this laptop through means I wont disclose, and it was locked, can you get me in? PRETTY PLZ!?" I am prone to say "no" to.