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Re: Checking for hackintosh
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Re: Checking for hackintosh


  • Subject: Re: Checking for hackintosh
  • From: "Chris Suter" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:27:04 +1000

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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