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Re:Sophisticated OS X Backdoor Discovered by markcerqueira on Thursday September 08, 2016 @04:50PM (#12457180)
> "A sophisticated backdoor targeting OS X discovered"

Unsure how this clears up the rootkit versus backdoor confusion...

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Re:Sophisticated OS X Backdoor Discovered by greenshackle on Thursday September 08, 2016 @05:36PM (#12457562)
It doesn't, it clears up the 'this was put in by Apple' confusion.
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Re:Sophisticated OS X Backdoor Discovered by kbenson on Thursday September 08, 2016 @06:01PM (#12457747)
Yes, that's exactly what I was trying to address. I should have quoted the first sentence of the parent to make that obvious, since there were a few assertions in that comment.
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