Re: Detecting Illegitimate OS X Installations?
Re: Detecting Illegitimate OS X Installations?
- Subject: Re: Detecting Illegitimate OS X Installations?
- From: Colin Cornaby <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 16:55:43 -0700
On Jun 17, 2006, at 3:12 PM, Andrew Farmer wrote:
On 17 Jun 06, at 12:55, Colin Cornaby wrote:
Before I go any further, NOTE WELL that this technique will
probably break as Apple releases new hardware! Do not make use it
unless you fully believe you can keep your software available and
up to date for at least the next few years.
That being said...
One good technique for detecting illegitimate OS X installs could
be to check what kind of CPU is being used. Apple has not yet
released any Intel Macs which use anything except a Core Solo or
Core Duo chip, so any OS X install that's running on a Pentium 4 or
an AMD chip is definitely a hacked version. The easiest way to
check the CPU type, in turn, would be to use the CPUID instruction.
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Sure, this is one big fat concern. Including such scans isn't really
worth it if I'm blocking legitimate OS X machines. I've thought about
several options, including checking for the EFI partition. Another
idea might be checking for the presence of "Dont Steal Mac OS
X.kext", but from the Googling I just did, it looks like this kext is
left in place on non-Apple machines. I'll leave the link out for the
sake of keeping the mods happy.
-Colin
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