Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 1st Oct 2006 20:42 UTC
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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2006-08-03
Just a few things:
1. If it's fixed why the hell don't they show the bug in action, in someone else's MacBook? It would be fairly easy to test that an unpatched Mac has the bug, and an updated Mac doesn't!
2. If there's such a bug, why did they use a third party wifi card when they showed it?
3. So, Apple stops David from attending, and Jon still thinks that he shouldn't show the bug in public and prove that Apple = bad?
Who should I believe, the guy who tells me that there's a bug, that they can prove it, but that they don't feel like it, we just have to have faith, or the company that tells me that there is no bug?
I do believe that Apple is capable of behaving this badly. But it's _easy_ for them to prove that they are telling the truth.
Either they are lying or they are behaving like little kids that like the attention they are receiving. Either way, it's hard to feel any sympathy for them.