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		yardie on Nov 2, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: My fiber optical modem broadcasts a poem via ether... You mean "Dont Steal Mac OS X.kext." And the Hackintosh equivalent was dsmos.kext. Which would "inject" the required system calls to trick OSX into running on non Apple hardware.

twoodfin on Nov 2, 2020 [–]

Reminds me of the folklore.org[1] story about the Steve Jobs-requested, Susan Kare-designed bitmap embedded in the original Macintosh ROM to catch cloners.

[1] https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor...

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