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Technology Stocks : Apple Inc.
AAPL 259.08-0.5%3:59 PM EST
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To: shlurker who wrote (113379)6/3/2011 6:46:39 PM
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>>How can one be sure that the "new software update" popup is really from AAPL?<<

Because the things you'd have to change to hack that are in directories that even a system administrator has no access to. You'd have to be root to get to them. Root is not even enabled by default on OS X.
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