Comments on: Anti-Piracy Message in Mac OS X Kernel Extension http://osxdaily.com/2010/03/19/anti-piracy-message-in-mac-os-x-kernel-extension/ News, tips, software, reviews, and more for Mac OS X, iPhone, iPad Wed, 22 May 2013 19:52:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: loppysauce http://osxdaily.com/2010/03/19/anti-piracy-message-in-mac-os-x-kernel-extension/#comment-309970 loppysauce Thu, 05 Jan 2012 02:22:38 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/?p=2912#comment-309970 This is a bit humorous. Good find. does anyone know why Mac OS x kernel is putting up mass activity when utorrent is running? This is a bit humorous. Good find. does anyone know why Mac OS x kernel is putting up mass activity when utorrent is running?

]]> By: Galaxy http://osxdaily.com/2010/03/19/anti-piracy-message-in-mac-os-x-kernel-extension/#comment-107901 Galaxy Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:23:17 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/?p=2912#comment-107901 On hackintoshes, that kext is responsible for doing the heavy lifting of decrypting the Apple Protected Binaries, however the actual keys are stored in a device called the SMC which is present only in Macs and is responsible for platform management like temps sensors etc. The trick is to emulate the whole device but provide only the necessary keys and a response when probed (to act like the actual device). Don't Steal Mac OS X does the rest. Apple implemented this idea starting with Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.3 and onward. The actual key(s) stored in the SMC are: "ourhardworkbythesewordsguardedpleasedontsteal(c)AppleComputerInc" On hackintoshes, that kext is responsible for doing the heavy lifting of decrypting the Apple Protected Binaries, however the actual keys are stored in a device called the SMC which is present only in Macs and is responsible for platform management like temps sensors etc. The trick is to emulate the whole device but provide only the necessary keys and a response when probed (to act like the actual device). Don’t Steal Mac OS X does the rest. Apple implemented this idea starting with Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.3 and onward. The actual key(s) stored in the SMC are: “ourhardworkbythesewordsguardedpleasedontsteal(c)AppleComputerInc”

]]> By: Charles White http://osxdaily.com/2010/03/19/anti-piracy-message-in-mac-os-x-kernel-extension/#comment-100246 Charles White Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:42:28 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/?p=2912#comment-100246 You can find it here. System/Library/Extensions/Dont Steal Mac OS X.kext When you find this file and select it. press 'Command I'. Read up on what it does. You can find it here.
System/Library/Extensions/Dont Steal Mac OS X.kext

When you find this file and select it. press ‘Command I’. Read up on what it does.

]]> By: lord_webi http://osxdaily.com/2010/03/19/anti-piracy-message-in-mac-os-x-kernel-extension/#comment-100174 lord_webi Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:17:07 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/?p=2912#comment-100174 yes ... this is the extension ... the "Your Karma blabla ..." ist the decrypt key from Apple ... on this all the Hackintosh decrypters are working :-) yes … this is the extension … the “Your Karma blabla …” ist the decrypt key from Apple … on this all the Hackintosh decrypters are working :-)

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