Re: Checking for hackintosh
Re: Checking for hackintosh
- Subject: Re: Checking for hackintosh
- From: Dustin Robert Kick <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:26:26 -0500
Why not have the error messages simply be error messages, and leave
out the "clever" which I think is always a bad idea, anyway, in almost
any domain? Have it report an error that has a number indicating a
possible hackintosh, and double check if it is a hackintosh issue, or
a bug in your software.
Dustin
KC9MEL
On Jul 30, 2008, at 10:00 PM, Matt Burnett wrote:
Then shouldn't you be able to determine if they are using a
hackintosh by the descriptions of support requests they are
submitting? If not are you sure your code checks return values and
is designed to fail gracefully?
On Jul 30, 2008, at 9:27 PM, Chris Suter wrote:
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 12:00 PM, Michael Ash
<email@hidden> wrote:
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 10:22 PM, John Joyce
<email@hidden> 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.
I really strongly advise against this.
Your code will have bugs, simply because it is code. It is quite
likely that one of these bugs will one day prevent a legitimate user
who owns a real, legitimate Macintosh from using your software.
At that point, I would argue, the harm to that one user far
outweighs
any minor, undetectable gain you could possibly get from such a
scheme.
One issue that we have is that we get a lot of support for our
products from
people who are running our software on Hackintosh's and they aren't
usually
up front about that fact. They end up wasting our time when it
turns out the
problem they've got is because they're running on a Hackintosh. So
there
would be some benefit if we could detect when we're running from a
Hackintosh. Unfortunately, as others have pointed out, there is no
future
proof way of doing that at the moment (that I know of).
-- Chris
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