Slashdot Mirror
How Apple Orchestrated Attack On Researchers
An anonymous reader sends us to George Ou's blog on ZDNet for a tale of how Apple's PR director reportedly orchestrated a smear campaign against security researchers David Maynor and Jon Ellch last summer. Ou has been sitting on this story ever since and is only now at liberty to tell it. He posits that the Month of Apple Bugs was a direct result of Apple's bad behavior in the Maynor-Ellch affair. From the blog: "Apple continued to claim that there were no vulnerabilities in Mac OS X but came a month later and patched their Wireless Drivers (presumably for vulnerabilities that didn't actually exist). Apple patched these 'non-existent vulnerabilities' but then refused to give any credit to David Maynor and Jon Ellch. Since Apple was going to take research, not give proper attribution, and smear security researchers, the security research community responded to Apple's behavior with the MoAB (Month of Apple Bugs) and released a flood of zero-day exploits without giving Apple any notification. The end result is that Apple was forced to patch 62 vulnerabilities in just the first three months of 2007 including last week's megapatch of 45 vulnerabilities."
Steve Jobs has a cave under his house?
This is fucking funny.
Wanna fight ? Bend over, stick your head up your ass, and fight for air.
I thought that stood for Mother of All Bombs. Iran mess forcing us to bring it out again?
haha nice one Lyne, way to play these chumps at their own game ;)
It would be less mouse clicks if you had more than one button to work with.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.