Thou shalt not steal.
A hacker encountered the poem recently, and a
copy of it has been circulating on Mac-user Web
sites this week.
Apple confirmed Thursday it has included such a
warning in its Intel-based computers since it
started selling them in January.
The embedded poem 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."
Apple also put in a separate hidden message,
"Don't Steal Mac OS X.kext," in another spot for
would-be hackers.
"We can confirm that this text is built into our
products," Apple issued in a statement. "Hopefully
it, and many other legal warnings, will remind
people that they should not steal Mac OS X."
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