Apple Sends Hidden Message to Hackers?

RetrogradeMotion writes "The OSx86 Project is reporting on a hidden message to hackers in Apple's new MacBook Pro. The new Intel-based OS X contains a file named 'Dont Steal Mac OS X.kext' and is accompanied by the message, 'The purpose of this Apple software is to protect Apple copyrighted materials from unauthorized copying and use.' The file is not present in either the PowerPC version of OS X or the Intel version shipped to developers last year. While Apple has sent messages to hackers before, is this a tounge-in-cheek introduction to the anticipated (and hated) Trusted Platform Module? Is locking down OS X a strategic necessity or a missed opportunity?" Obviously a big maybe here, but a good story just the same.

Comments

Alpha-bits. Its not funny the other way.

[dopaz]

Peter: Brian, there's a message in my Alpha-bits. It says ooooooooo.

Brian: Peter, those are Cheerios.

Re:Idiotic comment about unbundling software

[harlows_monkeys]

Dictionary.com defines "monopoly" as...

"Exclusive control by one group of the means of producing or selling a commodity or service."

Why does the parent poster claim that Microsoft is a monopoly yet Apple isn't?

Maybe because the parent poster knows that you don't look at dictionary.com to find out what a legal term means?

Re:Needs a Coral link...

[Army of 1 in 10]

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There are 10 types of people in the world...those who understand binary and those who don't. That's two types, moron.

10 is binary for 2. But of course, you knew that.

Re:Of course they want to keep it offa non-Macs!

[GaryPatterson]

And they've got it. It's called Windows.

If they don't like Windows, they've got Linux.

One last time - why should Apple do this?