Re:Sophisticated OS X Backdoor Discovered
by superuser2 on Thursday September 08, 2016 @04:58PM
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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.
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