Poetry Foils Hackers?
I had one of those strange moments where I thought I was in Sesame Street-Land, where poetry is meant to foil evil-doers.
In order to dissuade hackers from using the Mac operating system on non-Apple machines, Apple Computers has resorted to… poetry?
Here is the poem that pops up when you try to hack Mac OS X:
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.
They’re right, stealing software is “uncoolâ€, but is poetry really the right medium to dissuade piracy? I think of software pirates of more the conquering a difficult situation types than the sensitive blokes who would understand iambic pentameter. I would think that the poetry would just goad them on.
Maybe next time Apple will embed a good surrealistic painting that will pop up and stop them.
