Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 20th Mar 2007 18:41 UTC, submitted by makfu
"Last summer, when I wrote 'Vicious orchestrated assault on MacBook wireless researchers', it set off a long chain of heated debates and blogs. I had hoped to release the information on who orchestrated the vicious assault, but threats of lawsuits and a spineless company that refused to defend itself meant I couldn't disclose the details. A lot has changed since then: Researcher David Maynor is no longer working for SecureWorks, and he's finally given me permission to publish the details."
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RE: Nothing to see here (except libel)
by Gzzy on Tue 20th Mar 2007 21:38
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Maybe what you say is true but Daringfireball is so damn biased that he doesn't make a good source. Hell, he probably stired the pot more anyone else on the net. His challenge was just proof of how small minded he is.
He wishes he had half the influence of Thurrott or Dvorak. While his prose is beautiful, he acts like he has a Neopolean complex.
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2006-01-09
This story looks prety strange to me. With each new security update, Apple always credits the people who found the bugs. Just take a look at the last one, they have qutoed the MOAB almost ten times.
There is somethin wrong with this story, something that the author doesn't want to say.
Exactly. And that is that while they NEVER found an actual exploit for the built-in wi-fi card of Macs (just one against a third party card), they went on and on implying that they did (starting from the WSJ article on the exploit).
On top of this, they never produced the code or details. Worst still, they pointed to Apple patching bugs in their network and wi-fi stack as ...proof that their "exploit" was real. Since they never disclosed details of their "exploit", those bugs could be (and most probably are) totally unrelated with it.
It's like I come up with a a story of how I found an exploit against the Finder (say), without mentioning any specifics. Then, when eventually Apple patches some bug in the finder, I say "See, my exploit is true".
Apparently, they are the "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CherryOS">Cherry " of the security world.
As for Georges Ou, he is of Dvorak quality.
Read the whole saga here:
http://daringfireball.net/2006/08/curious_case
http://daringfireball.net/2006/08/macbook_wireless_saga
http://daringfireball.net/2006/09/open_challenge
http://daringfireball.net/2006/09/challenge_update
http://daringfireball.net/2006/09/lies_damned_lies_and_macbook_wifi...
http://daringfireball.net/2006/09/airport_security_update
http://daringfireball.net/2007/03/show_me