February 21, 2008
MacBook Keyboard Firmware Update is people!
Posted Feb. 21, ’08, 8:23 AM PT by Dan Moren
Category | Software » Updates
In what could be the most crucial information found since it was discovered that the Egyptian pyramids were in fact built at the behest of an race of alien slavemasters, investigative Mac users have discovered a hidden payload in the latest MacBook Keyboard Update. Nestled deep within the installer package is an innocuous-looking application called HIDFirmwareUpdaterTool—innocuous, that is, until you find the diabolical message secreted within.
If you open the file in a text editor—carefully, ever so carefully—and search for the incriminating phrase “sand dunes,” you’ll find these cryptic lines:
If you’re fond of sand dunes and salty air, quaint little villages here and there.WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTHThe text appears not one, but twice. The improbable combination of lines, which our friends over at Ars Technica have identified as being from two diverse works—a ditty called Old Cape Cod, and George Orwell’s classic 1984—have led me to one inescapable conclusion: that this is some sort of latent hypnotic trigger designed for some nefarious purp—does anyone else hear that buzzing? Man, that’s loud. And it kind of sounds like…words? Like “must…destroy…record…labels…”
Must…destroy…record…labels…
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huh, I thought "If you’re fond of sand dunes and salty air, quaint little villages here and there" was Groove Armada. you mean they didn't really write it? oh noes!