cringemaster Posted March 31, 2007 Share Posted March 31, 2007 Found this funny little tidbit when i searched "insanelymac" on wikipedia Wikipedia Wonder if anyone remembers this. Swad made a post about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted March 31, 2007 Share Posted March 31, 2007 Don't Steal Mac OS X.kext has been there since 10.4.4 or earlier. I can't remember. Anyway, old news! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cringemaster Posted March 31, 2007 Author Share Posted March 31, 2007 Don't Steal Mac OS X.kext has been there since 10.4.4 or earlier. I can't remember. Anyway, old news! yeah, but still, i found it kinda funny that someone would write that. i wonder if it was some developer, or apple legal... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soündless Posted March 31, 2007 Share Posted March 31, 2007 what does it do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac-mini Posted March 31, 2007 Share Posted March 31, 2007 The extension contains a kernel function called page_transform() which performs AES decryption of "apple-protected" programs. A Mac OS X system which is missing this extension, or a system where the extension has determined it's not running on genuine Apple hardware, will be missing this decryption capability, and as a result will not be able to run the apple-protected binaries Dock, Finder, loginwindow, SystemUIServer, mds, ATSServer, translate or translated.[3] The extension also exports the following message in shared address space at 0xFFFF1600: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted March 31, 2007 Share Posted March 31, 2007 Macintosh Genuine Advantage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erbic Posted March 31, 2007 Share Posted March 31, 2007 The extension contains a kernel function called page_transform() which performs AES decryption of "apple-protected" programs. A Mac OS X system which is missing this extension, or a system where the extension has determined it's not running on genuine Apple hardware, will be missing this decryption capability, and as a result will not be able to run the apple-protected binaries Dock, Finder, loginwindow, SystemUIServer, mds, ATSServer, translate or translated.[3] The extension also exports the following message in shared address space at 0xFFFF1600: Yeah, so much for that. If it really worked, our Hackintoshes would not exist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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