David Maynor and Jon 'Johnny Cache' Ellch aren't telling the complete Mac Wi-Fi flaw story after all. At the last minute, under pressure from SecureWorks (Maynor's employer) and Apple, a talk at ToorCon here was cancelled and replaced by a 'rant' from Ellch about what he described as an 'unprofessional' approach to the issue by both companies. Ellch, out of respect for his friend Maynor, declined to take questions or talk on-the-record about the brouhaha, but he did release the text of his rant, which was aimed squarely at Apple and SecureWorks.
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Member since:2006-06-02
You are right in that the latest update is for both platforms. Thom commented on the media puffing this up, and he is quite correct, and that is where the issues get all out of whack.
What would clear things up is an article with a time-line of events. At the time the two hackers were presenting the vulnerability, Intel was releasing a firmware upgrade, and Apple was releasing an 'Airport' security update. Both updates were unrelated. The Intel update occurred without any apparent connection to the two hackers work, although it may be the update was addressing the very issue.
The media (blogs and press) started in on wild speculation that Apple was telling lies. This was based on the timing of events, not on any actual communication from the two hackers. Jon Elch is playing this up for some personal reasons without presenting any facts, seeming awfully close to being slanderous.
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2006-09-01
"The patch Apple came up with was for PPC Macs, not the Intel versions.."
It's actually for both platforms.