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Where do you find that knowledge?

• Zev 18y ago
  If you actually want to do the hacking on your own: Learn x86 or x86_64 (be prepared for Snow Leopard) asm in depth for the kernel. Lots of C/IOKit knowledge for writing your own kext's (drivers for osx). Examine memory dumps and to figure out what gets loaded when (not to mention how. There's a few cryptographically signed things that had to be dumped; Dont Steal Mac OS X.kext is a good example). Look at tons of device and vendor id's and find the corresponding plists within apple-provided kext's. Find where and what to modify in them. Talk to people on IRC (there's some very talented people around there still, and even more talented folks that have quit the scene already). If you can, find old forum posts from osx86project - or concretesurf/win2osx (I'm talking stuff 2.5-3 years old, before they were big and worth indexing) In short: Explore the system at as low of a level as possible. Don't leave a stone unturned. If you just want to copy others work, you can stick with the "Talk to people on IRC.." part and you should manage, assuming you have an idea of what you're doing. All that being said, I'd recommending spending the time working on something more worthwhile.