back in the old days of the Apple ][, apps used to be able to check
the ROMS, specifically the bit that displayed "Apple ][" on startup
as the clones would normally have something different there to avoid
copyright theft being added to their list of crimes. I believe
Nintendo still do something similar in running a check vs their logo
on carts. If you copy the logo to make your clone cart work, you're
in direct breach of copyright.
Maybe it's worth a feature request to Apple to add something similar?
Aaron
On Jul 31, 2008, at 3:27 AM, Chris Suter wrote:
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 12:00 PM, Michael Ash
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 10:22 PM, John Joyce
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Does anybody have a means or a tool for checking for hackintoshes?
I really don't approve of such things and would like to leave clever
messages on my own software if it is run on a hackintosh.
I really strongly advise against this.
Your code will have bugs, simply because it is code. It is quite
likely that one of these bugs will one day prevent a legitimate user
who owns a real, legitimate Macintosh from using your software.
At that point, I would argue, the harm to that one user far outweighs
any minor, undetectable gain you could possibly get from such a
scheme.
One issue that we have is that we get a lot of support for our
products from
people who are running our software on Hackintosh's and they aren't
usually
up front about that fact. They end up wasting our time when it
turns out the
problem they've got is because they're running on a Hackintosh. So
there
would be some benefit if we could detect when we're running from a
Hackintosh. Unfortunately, as others have pointed out, there is no
future
proof way of doing that at the moment (that I know of).
-- Chris
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