Apple Hackers Encounter a Poetic Easter Egg

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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.

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More:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060217/ap_on_hi_te/apple_hacker_warning

- ferg

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"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/


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