Re: Checking for hackintosh
Re: Checking for hackintosh
- Subject: Re: Checking for hackintosh
- From: Andrew Merenbach <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:20:59 -0700
On Jul 30, 2008, at 8:24 PM, Chris Suter wrote:
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Matt Burnett <email@hidden
>wrote:
Then shouldn't you be able to determine if they are using a
hackintosh by
the descriptions of support requests they are submitting?
Sure, if customers are willing to disclose that they're running on a
Hackintosh which isn't usually the case.
If not are you sure your code checks return values and is designed
to fail
gracefully?
Of course, but we don't support Hackintosh's so we don't test on
them and
they are different (especially where disk utilities are concerned).
I was just making the point that it would be useful to be able to
detect
whether you're running on a Hackintosh *if* there was a reliable way
of
doing it.
-- Chris
This thread, albeit only marginally-related to Cocoa, is an
interesting one. One solution (not saying that it'd "work" for
everyone) would be to abandon Hackintosh-*checking* code, but install
a menu item to send a system profile to you, via an online PHP form or
some such, along with a support request message. Thus one need not
program in potentially-fragile code, but one does get to decide, per-
support-request, whether a computer is legitimately a supported machine.
On the other hand, it might be possible for a clever user to hack your
program and to send bogus information to your web form. This would be
Bad. But such a system might at least be a deterrent to
"Hackintoshers."
Cheers,
Andrew
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