Six months ago, you would have been right. This would have been an article about flaws in general wireless drivers. In fact, I reported it that way at the time. (See: http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11404).

However, Maynor's latest presentation, which was the focus of this article, was not on generic wireless flaws but in Apple's response to the specific wireless flaws allegedly shipped as part of its products. The flaws apparently occur in the reference drivers and most vendors did not do enough further testing to catch the issues.

That is to say, the specific drivers were Apple's versions of the Broadcom and Atheros wireless drivers. Other vendors also may have had the issues, but they did not seem to try to hide that fact, as Maynor claims Apple did.

So "Apple flaws" continues to be accurate in the title of this article.

-R

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