----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Gibson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: grc.news,grc.news.feedback Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2005 10:23 PM Subject: Apple Mac OSX cracked for Intel PCs
Folks, You may have heard, here or elsewhere, that Apple Computer was planning to switch to Intel processors. Paving the way for that, they created a developer release of their Tiger OSX operating system which they "locked" by requiring that it use TPM (Trusted Platform Module) security. Well ... that lasted for about a week. Hackers gleefully plunged in and easily removed the TPM dependent code from the Mac OSX kernel. Today, Bittorent sites are buzzing with a cracked version of the OSX developer system which can, as a consequence, run on any Intel based PC. If you're curious, Google for: tiger-x86.tar.bz2 The code is set up to run within a VMWare system, but there are sites containing step-by-step explanations of how to install and boot these files from a PC's hard drive. So ... Did the entire world just swing around and change? Could Apple NOT have known this would happen? If so, could this possibly be deliberate on Apple's part? This genie cannot be put back into its bottle. Apple's OSX for the Mac is now running on standard Intel PCs. ________________________________________________________________ Steve. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Purchase Homesite Plus with Dreamweaver from House of Fusion, a Macromedia Authorized Affiliate and support the CF community. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=55 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:169257 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
