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This little line, copyrighted by Apple, is what I understand to be the legal protection they have against people running OS X on non-Apple hardware:

https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM/blob/476ae8b082088049f2f8c...

I would not be surprised if a DMCA takedown will be filed against this repository soon.

More information here: http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~somlo/OSXKVM/#sec_3_2_1

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I doubt that line ("ourhardworkbythesewordsguardedpleasedontsteal") is creative enough to meet the threshold of originality required for something to be protected by copyright.

Even if it actually were copyrightable/trademarked it wouldn't be a valid legal strategy to prevent fair-use:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_v._Accolade

I wouldn't be so sure. That case predates the DMCA - see also the AACS encryption key controversy.

They could take it out of the repo and imply heavily that people should Google it. It's pretty easy to find on other websites and forum posts.

"A secret value goes here. Google 'isa-applesmc' and maybe you'll find it."

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