In the latest update to the Apple Macintosh OS X Operating System, now labelled ‘10.4.5′, Apple Computer have penned a short request to would-be hackers to not crack the Operating Stystem so it can be used on generic non-Apple hardware. The request is only really notable because it is written in verse. Technologically adapt users around the world have jumped at the chance to make the Apple OS work with hardware than can be bought at any standard computer store, rather than at the Apple Store’s more significant markup prices, and have been racing to make the system work. The recent transition to Intel processors instead of IBM PowerPCs has meant that the OS has for the first time been able to run on Intel’s more widely available (and cheaper) processors because software is designed for the specific processor on which it runs. This Intel shift has lead to, amongst other things, the first reported OS X Trojan Virus on macrumors.com website forum designed to look like an image download. Macrumors is one of the most widely read Macintosh-related sites on the internet and so is a logical home to anyone trying to find a large Apple user-base.
The transition to Intel has meant that many Apple users are more fearful of Viruses and such problems propagating on the Macintosh network of users, an issue to which Apple has largely been thought to be immune. Virus writers have to be adept at writing for the less-used Apple development environment to create a virus and now that this environment is more akin to the Windows one, virus threats are more likely. So it is with this in mind that Apple’s software engineers write to warn users not to hack into the OS X system.
First discovered on the OSX86Project.org website, a community which focuses on the movement from PowerPC to Intel (otherwise known as X86), the warning reads:
Your karma check for today:
There once was a user that whined
his existing OS was so blind,
he’d do better to pirate
an OS that ran great
but found his hardware declined.
Please don’t steal Mac OS!
Really, that’s way uncool.
(C) Apple Computer, Inc.
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