Johnny Cache Breaks Silence On Wi-Fi Exploit

Joe Barr writes, "Johnny Cache — aka Jon Ellch — is chafing under the cone of silence placed over him and co-presenter Dave Maynor about the Wi-Fi exploit they presented at Black Hat and DEFCON last month. So he has finally broken his silence on NewsForge in hopes of ending the personal attacks coming from what he implies is a smear campaign started by Apple." (Newsforge and Slashdot are both owned by OSTG.)

Johhny Cache writes, "If you're going to post a news story that is a rehash of my post to a mailing list, I would much prefer it if people actaully just read the post in its entirety."

Comments

Macjihad

[Anonymous Coward]

I know the feeling. If you even dare to suggest that an Apple might even have the slightest imperfection, the crazy Appleist Fundementalist Extremists will start a Jihad against you.

Re:Macjihad

[schon]

Umm... something having a bug isn't an incredible claim.

It does it if it's a Mac.

Let's face it. Everyone knows that Macs simply don't have bugs. Mac software and hardware is completely infallible, and it's simply impossible that anything that Apple produces could possibly have any sort of flaw, of any type. To suggest otherwise means you are either a heretic, or are deliberately trying to sully Apple's good name.

As part of the global computing community it is your divine duty to viciously attack this "Johnny Cache" (if that is his real name) in any and all public forums due to his outrageous propaganda and vicious lies against the One True Perfect Operating System, until such time as he repents his sinful actions, throws himself at the feet of Jobs and carries out self-immolation.

Yea verily, in the name of the Father, Sun, and Steve Jobs, Amen.

Re:chafing

[AchiIIe]

The video was fabricated, see: http://www.smallworks.com/archives/00000461.htm?
Secureworks claims the card used was a usb device, however a high resolution video of the attack shows the mac address and the device (en1) was actually a apple wifi card.
Here is a screenshot of when he typed ifconfig: screenshot you'll see that even tho the claimed it was an external wifi card that was compromised, the connection has gone through the regular airport connection. The smallworks article goes into details, but the video was faked, no question about it.

Johnny Cakes speaks!

[Quiet_Desperation]

Zzzzzzzz....

Re:chafing

[AchiIIe]

Oops, the image ran out of bandwith, here's a mirror: maynor video screenshots (image 6)
If you check the mac address you will see that it's an apple mac address. See the IEEE OUI list.

So, what we have is:
a) Maynor claiming he is using an external card
b) Maynor claiming that the ip they got is 192.168.1.50 (see the video)
c) According to the screenshot the mac address associated with that ip is 00-17-F2-41-31-6D
d) According to the IEEE OUI that mac address belongs to apple
e) Maynor claiming he did not hack the apple driver but an external card's driver

THE VIDEO WAS FAKED. END OF STORY

Re:So..?

[Bing Tsher E]

The only thing that surprises me is seeing the Apple shills travelling off apple.slashdot.org to do their moderating.

Usually they hover over appledotslashdot.

Re:So..?

[Fordiman]

Daring Fucktard's challenge involves a clean, 3rd-party device free macbook. If you'll please note, the video had a 3rd-party card in it.