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Mac OS X Intel Kernel Uses DRM

Posted by timothy on from the folks-are-surprised-about-this-why-exactly? dept.

An anonymous reader submits "Several people have discovered that the new Intel kernel Apple has included with the Developer Kit DVD uses TCPA/TPM DRM. More specifically, it includes "a TCPA/Palladium implementation that uses a Infineon 1.1 chip which will prevent certain parts of the OS from working unless authorized."

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  1. Re:FP! by BetterThanCaesar · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    But if no one posted first, then no one could post second, or third, and there'd be no posts at all.

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  2. Re:Damn Microsoft! by MysteriousPreacher · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    1) Rehash tired old joke
    2) .....
    3) PROFIT!!!!!

    I fail it.

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  3. Re:Damn Microsoft! by schiefaw · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That is some act! What do you call it? The Aristocrats!

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  4. IHBT. IHL. by daniil · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I didn't read your post properly the first time and (mis-)took it for the usual "I don't want to start a holy war here..." troll. And then my head exploded, and now there are tiny bits of skull bone and brain tissue all over the room. Luckily, it turns out i can manage just as well even without a brain.

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  5. Re:Damn Microsoft! by Golias · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    all your old rehash joke are belong to us!

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