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Re:Answers to your questions about Apple and security by bonestamp2 on Monday February 22, 2016 @12:39PM (#11152623)
> Some finite number of human beings at Apple have the ability to create such a tool on their own initiative, e.g. were they disgruntled.

Is that true? I mean, wouldn't those employees need the root signing certificate... something I suspect is very tightly protected even within apple.

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Re:Answers to your questions about Apple and security by zeveb on Monday February 22, 2016 @12:51PM (#11152716)
> something I suspect is very tightly protected even within apple.

By, say, breaking up its custodianship among a … finite group of human beings.

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Re:Answers to your questions about Apple and security by rootusrootus on Monday February 22, 2016 @01:02PM (#11152815)
You just made an important distinction, however, between a singular employee, and a group.
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