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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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    "Stop failing the Turing test!" -- Dilbert