Re: Hackers Expose 'Critical' Wi-Fi Driver Flaw

On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 01:03:22 GMT, neillmassello@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Neill
Massello) wrote in
<1hjic0u.12s2zgq1i2q9jqN%neillmassello@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

Kurt Ullman <kurtullman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

They also were silent in the stuff I read about whether this was an
exploit as they came out of the box or if there had be changes (and if
so which ones) to the system preferences. Also quiet as to whether this
was an exploit in every flavor of Mac or just the MacBook (or even just
the newer MacBook., what about the older MacBook Pros.

The only apparent reason for using a Mac at all was that Ellch and
Maynor were peeved at Apple's advertising and at Mac users' supposedly
smug attitude toward security.

Yep, but it seems to have backfired -- they probably should have shown a
Windows exploit as well.

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