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Apple Hacker Charlie Miller To Demo Dangers of Near-Field Communications

Posted by timothy on from the these-icons-sure-are-clastic dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Apple's hacker nemesis Charlie Miller, who the company banned from its app store developer program, apparently hasn't been waiting around for his suspension to be lifted. His latest pet project is hacking near-field communications (NFC), and at Black Hat USA in Vegas this month, he will demonstrate the dangers of using your smartphone to pay your cab fare. (But when his Apple 'sentence' is up, look out)."

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  1. Article submitter's an idiot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    1) Apple phones don't have NFC chips in them so Charlie Miller cannot be "exposing them"

    2) Charlie Millier will be exposing security problems of NFC with Android phones.

    3) Charlie Miller is also Google's nemesis and has exposed how silly Android security testing is:

    http://www.darkreading.com/vulnerability-management/167901026/security/client-security/240003490/apple-ban-gives-miller-time-to-hack-other-things.html

    4) timothy seems to have an axe to grind against Apple so he's submitting these idiotic articles lately. It's he, however, that looks stupid as a result.

  2. Re:What makes you think his "sentence" is ever up? by alen · · Score: 4, Informative

    there is no NFC on the iphone now, nothing has been announced for iOS 6 and it's only a rumor for the next iphone

    how is he going to embarrass apple since they only have a few patents for NFC. and that's only because apple patents everything, even tech they don't end up using.

    if anything he's going to embarrass google since they are pushing NFC and google wallet

  3. Re:No wonder Apple hates him by sideslash · · Score: 4, Informative

    He proved there could be other malware apps like his successfully submitted and now lurking on the official App Store. So what was your point again?

  4. Re:What makes you think his "sentence" is down? by DJRumpy · · Score: 5, Informative

    How are they censoring him? He uploaded an exploit into the App Store. If he wanted to bring attention to it, all he had to do was to contact Apple or put something on the net. Instead he violated the terms of use and his developer agreement and uploaded said exploit instead.

  5. Re:What makes you think his "sentence" is ever up? by andydread · · Score: 4, Informative

    Oh, and no Apple product cost twice what it should, they are comparable in price to any business-class Dell or HP. There is no 500GB HD for $200, so you are just a filthy fucking liar trying to spread propaganda which you can't back up.

    They recently listed a 640 GB for $199

    They list a 4GB ECC 1333 DIMM module for $150
    Newegg has a 8GB ECC 1333 DIMM module for $68

    So from where I sit it looks like Apple products cost twice what they should. .... just saying.