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Five Hackers Who Left a Mark on 2006
espera un momento writes "eweek.com picks the five hackers who made a significant impact on security and vulnerability research in 2006. These are some interesting choices of the guys (and gal) who dominated the media headlines. The topics covered included Wi-Fi bugs, browser flaws and rootkits."
From the article: "However, security researchers who understood the technical nature--and severity--of their findings, Ellch and Maynor were widely celebrated for their work, which was the trigger for the MoKB (Month of Kernel Bugs) project that launched with exploits for Wi-Fi driver vulnerabilities. Since the Black Hat talk, a slew of vendors--including Broadcom, D-Link, Toshiba and Apple--have shipped fixes for the same class of bugs identified by Ellch and Maynor, confirming the validity of their findings. " Look for 'Apple' and 'shipped fixes' in the text.
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The poorly written code was in the Atheros driver, which was nothing to do with Apple, and indeed other platforms using the same hardware were also vulnerable.
They still haven't clearly stated that a stock Airport Extreme setup is as vulnerable as shown, as they clearly used a usb wireless device for the demo.
I would have more respect for these guys if they hadn't come out with the 'poke a lit cigarette in every Apple user's eye' comment which proved they had an axe to grind.