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Re: Checking for hackintosh



On Jul 30, 2008, at 2:54 PM, Sean McBride wrote:

On 7/30/08 2:06 PM, Abernathy, Joshua said:

Seeing as how the OS itself thinks it's running on Apple hardware, I
have no idea how you, running on the OS, would detect otherwise.

And any solution one comes up with is likely to be fragile and possibly
fail with new genuine hardware. IMNSHO, you shouldn't try to detect
such things.

Agreed. Any effective solution will come in an update from Apple that prevents OS X itself from running. If Apple can't detect it when they control all the hardware, firmware, kernel and user-land software, and also have some financial incentive to solve it, it seems unlikely that a third-party user-land app is going to be more effective.


Any approach posted publicly in this forum will be defeated before the bits have dried.

-Rob

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References: 
 >Re: Checking for hackintosh (From: Tim McGaughy <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Checking for hackintosh (From: Devon Ferns <email@hidden>)
 >RE: Checking for hackintosh (From: "Abernathy, Joshua" <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Checking for hackintosh (From: "Sean McBride" <email@hidden>)



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