Thursday, September 20, 2007

MacBook WiFi Exploit Finally Published

Remember last year's brouhaha (or was it ballyhoo) about the MacBook wireless exploit reported by the Washington Post's Brian Krebs?

Well, David Maynor finally published the details of his original MacBook hack. I have to say, I was always very skeptical of Maynor's whole story, starting with the problems in the original Post story—problems which I still attribute to Kreb's poor reporting, further accerbated by George Ou's babbling. But, Maynor appears to have found a serious problem at the time.

I think the lesson here is how not to report on a security flaw. I also can't help but wonder just exactly what Apple was doing during this time.

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