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MacBook Wi-Fi Hijack Details Finally Released
Wick3d Gam3s writes "Hacker David Maynor attempted to put the strange tale of the Macbook Wifi hack to rest, and offered an apology for mistakes made. All this and a live demo of the takeover exploit was made at a Black Hat DC event yesterday. Maynor promised to release e-mail exchanges, crash/panic logs and exploit code in an effort to clear his tarnished name. Said Maynor: 'I screwed up a bit [at last year's Black Hat in Las Vegas]. I probably shouldn't have used an Apple machine in the video demo and I definitely should not have discussed it a journalist ahead of time ... I made mistakes, I screwed up. You can blame me for a lot of things but don't say we didn't find this and give all the information to Apple.'"
Why didn't he simply show a repeat of the same thing he demonstrated before--a takeover of the machine?
Because "a magician never repeats a trick."
"How to Do Nothing," kids activities, back in print!
Theory and practice are two completely different things.
not in theory.
It's hard to believe that you don't find Maynor's "I can do that, I just don't feel like it" argument fishy at all.
What the hell are you talking about?! Whether or not he can do it is not the issue! Apple has admitted that it is possible.
Here is TFA if you are too lazy to actually read it. Hell, since you like putting things in bold I'll help you out...
Impact: Attackers on the wireless network may cause arbitrary code execution
No no. That's not the bug Maynor was talking about, this is a different Wi-Fi remote code execution bug. Completely unrelated. Apple even pinky sweared.