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Apple Hackers Encounter a Poetic Easter Egg
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 14:39:43 GMT
Via Yahoo! News. [snip] Apple Computer Inc. has resorted to a poetic broadside in the inevitable cat-and-mouse game between hackers and high-tech companies. The maker of Macintosh computers had anticipated that hackers would try to crack its new OS X operating system built to work on Intel Corp.'s chips and run pirated versions on non-Apple computers. So, Apple developers embedded a warning deep in the software in the form of a poem. Indeed, a hacker encountered the poem recently, and a copy of it has been circulating on Mac-user Web sites this week. Apple confirmed Thursday it has included such a warning in its Intel-based computers since it started selling them in January. [snip] More: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060217/ap_on_hi_te/apple_hacker_warning - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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