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It seems like there are a lot of tools, patches, and installers in the Hackintosh/"not quite supported Mac" realm that are supposed to be blindly trusted by use
by no_protocol 10y ago
It seems like there are a lot of tools, patches, and installers in the Hackintosh/"not quite supported Mac" realm that are supposed to be blindly trusted by users. It's like a few guys figure something out and release a fix but they are rarely explained or documented.
Do you know if there is a forum thread or mailing list or site documenting what this program does with source available?
- overcast 10y agoMonster thread if you want to dig through it. Though you could say that about just about every piece of software you use. http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/macos-10-12-sierra-unsupported-macs-thread.1977128/ http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/macos-10-12-sierra-unsup...
- s_kilk 10y agoReminds me of the android scene, loads of random forum posts, zips uploaded to rapidshare and blind trust in hacked installers. It's been a few years since I last built a hackintosh though.
- overcast 10y agoThe newest patcher, downloads the installer straight from Apple for you, and then you patch that.
- mhurron 10y ago> Hackintosh/"not quite supported Mac" realm that are supposed to be blindly trusted by users. That's pretty normal for the Apple user community. Not long after the release of Sierra, you had people on forums asking for other (not App Store) sources for an ISO to download and install from because the App Store was (predictably) swamped. No one had a problem with installing their OS from god knows where, they just go ahead and trust any source that said, yep, this is totally a legit Sierra installer.
- overcast 10y agoYou can pretty easily check the SHA hash on them, and confirm. The newest dosdude patcher, actually logs into Apple and downloads the legit installer.
- mhurron 10y agoIt's the patcher part that is untrustable here. Also, where does Apple make the hash of the legit installer available?
- overcast 10y agoWelp, your alternative is end of life from Apple. Install Little Snitch, monitor usage, scan for viruses. I'm only giving you my anecdotal evidence, as well as 200 pages of responses on Macrumors.