, SecurityFocus 2007-03-01
ARLINGTON, VA. -- Security researcher David Maynor got some measure of vindication at the Black Hat DC Conference this year.
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Maynor reveals missing Apple flaw
2007-03-02
David Taylor (2 replies)
David Taylor (2 replies)
This guy is now saying that his attack was on Broadcom's wireless drivers. Then in the video he uses a MacBook with a 3rd party wireless card, NOT the internal card inside the MacBook. Why did he do that? Because, if you look at any Mac teardown site you'd KNOW that every MacBook and MacBook Pro that Apple ever shipped has an Atheros card in it, not a Broadcom card.
Hence, what was the guy REALLY doing? He was successully attacking a third party wireless card driver that would only be installed if the user wanted to use that third party card instead of the built-in wireless that comes with every MacBook.
He did NOT hack ANYTHING written by Apple! He hacked a very narrowly deployed 3rd party wireless driver, something which would effect probably ZERO real MacBook users in the world because who installs a driver for a 3rd party wireless card when they already HAVE wireless built in?
Who was really most affected by this flaw? It was WINDOWS laptop users, not MacOS X users. So why didn't he show the flaw on a Windows laptop? Because this guy is a bitter Mac hater who wanted his 15 minutes of fame so he chose to create a firestorm by showing some bogus attacks on a Mac rather than on a Windows PC where everyone would go, "Yeah, so what's new? We know Windows has a bazillion security laws, what's one more?".
Fix your story and learn to do some actual investigative reporting before you print drivel like this again next time.
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