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

[Jim March]

On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 11:35 PM, Bowie J. Poag<bpoag at comcast.net> wrote:
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> I'm telling you, Apple's OS has no way to ID a real Apple.
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> 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.

OK...wait.

Again, you're not *exactly* answering the question: could such an ID
process be ADDED?

It may not be there now...

Sigh...

Look, worst case couldn't something look directly at firmware memory
locations..."old school" style?