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Of course not. macOS has no DRM, but that could change at some point. Information on changes for updates come quickly, and it's pretty standard practice to cl
by matthew-wegner 9y ago
Of course not. macOS has no DRM, but that could change at some point.
Information on changes for updates come quickly, and it's pretty standard practice to clone your boot drive before major updates.
In a worst-case scenario, you just stay on a version of macOS until it makes more sense to use that same hardware for a Windows/whatever OS change.
- Gaelan 9y agoNot true IIRC. Several OS components are decrypted at runtime by “Don’t Steal Mac OS X.kext”. Not very effective, of course.
- matthew-wegner 9y agoI'm aware of DSMOS, but as yet it doesn't do any verification of anything before decryption. Also, the actual key used is simply "ourhardworkbythesewordsguardedpleasedontsteal(c)AppleComputerInc". To virtualize OSX/macOS on hypervisors that don't natively support Mac, you have to pass this in yourself.