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Posted Sep 30, 2009

Stallman: No Evidence of Backdoor in Mac OS X

      

From the Truthiness dept.:
...While Richard Stallman is a staunch critic of anything closed and non-Free, his ire seems mostly directed towards DRM and Microsoft. However, a lesser known fact is that he often talks about Apple's Mac OS X too in his speeches. During those speeches, he repeatedly claimed Mac OS X contained a backdoor which allowed Apple to forcibly impose software changes upon users. Stallman has now posted a retraction for those claims.

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Re: Stallman: No Evidence of Backdoor in Mac OS X (Score: 1)
by vijaytalasila on Oct 02, 2009 - 12:47 PM
Great... hope Apple come back with some more ideas


Re: Stallman: No Evidence of Backdoor in Mac OS X (Score: 1)
by roblow12 on Oct 06, 2009 - 02:53 PM
That is a relief. There were a lot of nervous office mates out there but this will help to calm them down a bit.


Re: Stallman: No Evidence of Backdoor in Mac OS X (Score: 1)
by peretparker on Oct 08, 2009 - 01:42 AM
Stallman based his claims on information he heard from the Mac community. "I heard this in the Mac community, but there is no published information that confirms it, and I now believe that I was misinformed," he writes, "There is no evidence that Apple has installed software changes without the user's permission."


Re: Stallman: No Evidence of Backdoor in Mac OS X (Score: 1)
by jennscott on Oct 09, 2009 - 10:50 PM
Duh! He's been claiming during his speeches then afterwards, he'll retract. Is he afraid of something?




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