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Re:Sophisticated OS X Backdoor Discovered by superuser2 on Thursday September 08, 2016 @04:58PM (#12457259)
Backdoor is a politically loaded term at this point. Backdoors (in privacy-related discourse) are vulnerabilities inserted intentionally by the manufacturer or government with supply-chain cooperation. The claim "Backdoor found in X's product" is roughly equivalent to the claim "Evidence found that X is a collaborator with the surveillance state" to many people, so we might want to be careful about throwing it around when we don't mean that.
Re:Sophisticated OS X Backdoor Discovered by oso2k on Thursday September 08, 2016 @08:14PM (#12458685)
At least for me, there is a distinction between a Phone Home capability and a Backdoor.
Re:Sophisticated OS X Backdoor Discovered by saurik on Thursday September 08, 2016 @10:08PM (#12459209)
That is different wording. One can find an OS X backdoor in Microsoft Word, for example. Here the OS X backdoor was found not in OS X but in some other program.