After learning of the original post this morning on NetworkWorld.com, we launched an internal investigation into this issue.

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NetworkWorld did some digging in court filings and unearthed some of the earliest known photos of an iPad prototype.

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As NetworkWorld notes, that could lead to some more nefarious folks developing a SMM rootkit, which would be all the more perilous considering that the user of the infected computer would have no way of detecting the attack.

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