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Comment by pilsetnieks

5 years ago

Ironically, it couldn't be with macOS, which this whole thread is about avoiding.

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ric2b  5 years ago

It certainly could if Apple wanted to do the same thing that Lenovo did.

Thorrez  5 years ago

Would MacOS actually have prevented it? Would Superfish just have simply signed the binary? Sure it wouldn't have started up when the Apple servers are down, but that's a very small percent of the time.

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