[Tfug] Alan Cox: "I've had enough"--what else is new?

[Bowie J. Poag]

I'm telling you, Apple's OS has no way to ID a real Apple.

The information the OS relies upon, can, like everything else, be 
hacked. The lowest of the low-level resources on PCs is the BIOS. Macs 
use something called an EFI, which is sort of the next evolutionary step 
up from BIOS.  I can selectively tell the EFI to mimic the individual 
characteristics of about a dozen different Mac laptops and desktops, 
from old iMacs all the way up to modern Mac Pros. Its trivial.

Chameleon EFI and UEFI are wonderful things.
> Bowie, do you mean to tell me Apple's OS has no way to ID a real Apple
> underneath?
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> Really and truly?
>
> I call BS.
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