RE: Checking for hackintosh
RE: Checking for hackintosh
- Subject: RE: Checking for hackintosh
- From: "Abernathy, Joshua" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:06:09 -0400
- Thread-topic: Checking for hackintosh
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.
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] On Behalf Of Devon Ferns
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 12:42 PM
To: Tim McGaughy
Cc: email@hidden
Subject: Re: Checking for hackintosh
Someone hacks the OS X kernel to bypass Apple's checks for a legitimate
Macintosh and usually posts it to some p2p site where people
steal(copyright infringe) it and run it on their home build PCs.
Devon
Tim McGaughy wrote:
>
> On Jul 29, 2008, at 9:22 PM, John Joyce wrote:
>
>> Does anybody have a means or a tool for checking for hackintoshes?
>> I really don't approve of such things and would like to leave clever
>> messages on my own software if it is run on a hackintosh.
>
> What's a hackintosh?
>
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