To be honest I never thought that opener was a rootkit as it did very little to evade detection. The problem for OS X rootkits is that they all seem to require the the victim to install the devtools and run stuff as root.
Can't quite work out why osxrk supplies a version of nc as it is already provided , at least in Tiger.
To give a feel for the lack of development we have this from the Togroot README.
Once loaded, Togroot will give you the ability to obtain root access simply by typing "/givemeroot" and typing "su", for example. ... cp -R /path/to/togroot.kext /system/library/extensions/togroot.kext Add sudo to the beginning if you are not currently root.
So to install a rootkit to give you root access to a system you require root access, deeply flawed in my mind.
One day there will be a credible rootkit for OS X, but today I am not too worried.
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