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Apple Files Patent for "Tamper-Resistant Code"

Posted by samzenpus on from the can't-touch-this dept.

freaktheclown writes "The US Patent and Trademark Office has revealed that Apple has filed patent no. 20050246554 for a "system and method for creating tamper-resistant code." The system is presumably for use in Apple's Intel version of its Tiger operating system."

6 of 401 comments (clear)

  1. In other words by Mensa+Babe · · Score: 0, Troll

    Apple has a patent for method and apparatus creating patterns of ones and zeroes in which any given one and zero is impossible to change to zero and one, respectively. And to be honest the only reason that I will not ridicule them is that I really love their products. Sue me!

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  2. It has to be said: by trurl7 · · Score: 0, Troll

    In Soviet Russia, the code tampers with *YOU*.

    Thank you, thank you. I'll be here all week. Try the veal.

  3. Re:Translating code blocks by PlusFiveTroll · · Score: 0, Troll

    So they don't have to pay for OS X?

    No, so they dont have to buy an apple machine. I personally would have no problem paying apple for a copy of OSX (ohsucks as i otherwise call it), It just seems highly unlikely that they will sell copies for regular PC's.

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  4. Re:Translating code blocks by sabernet · · Score: 0, Troll

    Nice troll.

    Here's a quick scenario:

    MAC: Unable to run windows for windows programs(yes, there are many good native windows programs). Hardware costs many times more then equivalent X86 hardware and is mostly monopolized.

    X86: Open. Runs any damn OS. Cheap hardware in a competitive market. Open hardware specs. Service to be gotten everywhere other then the sparser, expensive "Apple Stores". Three farking mouse buttons.

    OSX-X86: advantages of X86 + the ability to boot up the OSX OS(which is nice).

    Why are you so obsessed with blaming everyone as a freeloader?

  5. Re:Hardware development by rayhigh · · Score: 0, Troll

    "I rather like the fact that my computer is unique, and not made of components by the metric ass-load flowing out of China." Typical Mac user - fashion whore.

  6. Re:uh oh.... by ajs318 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Go and learn your definitions, please.

    Hacking == creative. Cracking == destructive.

    Getting OSX to run on something other than Apple hardware isn't cracking {destructive} -- it's hacking {creative}. Writing software which denies us the Four Freedoms is just playing dog-in-the-manger. If anybody is behaving like a cracker, it's Apple.

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