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It's all about control.. I often wonder if Apple have become the man in the screen, instead of the woman with the hammer.

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This has been the case since they implemented PT_DENY_ATTACH. Revolutionaries that throw hammers at screens do not artificially limit their operating system.

For those of us nubs who don't know what PT_DENY_ATTACH is, I did a little bit of research and have come to this conclusion:

It's a flag that prevents a debugger from attaching itself to the process, aka preventing gdb from attaching to iTunes.

I believe more importantly when people got all huffy about it was disallowing dtrace to attach.

For those you who weren't around in 1984... Or didn't pay attention in high school english or decades old super bowl ads.

Apple's commercial:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYecfV3ubP8

And the obligatory wiki link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_(television_commercial)

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