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Is there a backdoor in Safari 6.1? (Version 6.1 (8537.59))
With all this NSA spying going around, pardon me if I'm a little paranoid.
I'm a registered Apple developer and was encouraged to download Safari 6.1 for testing. Here's what I saw when I clicked on the Privacy pane in Safari's preferences.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Frz0M41Bhv4
If you pause the video at the 5 second mark, it shows a dialog that auto-dismisses. Something about a "PluginProcess.app" attempting to connect to Safari.
A little sleuthing shows that this is located at the following path:
/System/Library/StagedFrameworks/Safari/WebKit2.framework/PluginProcess.app/Contents/MacOS/PluginProcess
If I change the permissions to non-executable, the dialog goes away.
I was hoping someone more technically-oriented could look into this.