Thank you! Many things concur to the current situation. Firmware encryption and other counter-measures, the lack of a "universal" firmware flash utility in OS X (like Multi-Flasher was in OS 9), wife, kids, kids, wife, free time lack etc. Note that I didn't totally give up, just like taking a HUGE break instead.
I would like to have more info about the first agreement, you know, the one that barred RealPC from being a competitor to VirtualPC?
That agreement made all competition disappear on the PC-emulator-for-Mac market, isn't it?
I bet both product would have benefited from some competition.
So, does every player in this game have dirty hands? Connectix for muzzling FWB, FWB for accepting such a deal (but was it a deal?), and M$, well, time will tell how exactly...
I wouldn't be surprised if M$ released VPC for a while, baiting, say, corporate users, then drop it, forcing these into a Mac to PC switch. But that's a wild guess!
Well, as long as the obfuscation, whatever be it, is constant, you don't even need to unobfuscate it, as sending the obfuscated password is enough to gain administrative access to the base station.
Unobfuscating the password is merely a convenience to avoid patching the base administration software.
On a security point of vue, this is the same as a login process. The Airport base would have to use secured login methods (like public key exchange or challenge/reply, etc) to prevent such flaws.
This is true for every network appliance, or for the matter, every time a login is done thru an unsecured channel. This is why ssh exists.
My ideal browser would be something like Chimera with iCab's filter manager (with real regexps, not the current fakes). iCab filter manager just rocks. Period. Maybe the guys at iCab should use Gecko and concentrate on what is their added value? Aaaah, let me dream...
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Thank you!
Many things concur to the current situation. Firmware encryption and other counter-measures, the lack of a "universal" firmware flash utility in OS X (like Multi-Flasher was in OS 9), wife, kids, kids, wife, free time lack etc.
Note that I didn't totally give up, just like taking a HUGE break instead.
Alas, there's NO region free firmware for this drive yet.
Matsushita took some steps to prevent this: the firmware is encrypted, etc...
More and more drives are protected against patching (Pioneer, etc...). Smells like some kind of pressure from the movie industry here...
I would like to have more info about the first agreement, you know, the one that barred RealPC from being a competitor to VirtualPC?
That agreement made all competition disappear on the PC-emulator-for-Mac market, isn't it?
I bet both product would have benefited from some competition.
So, does every player in this game have dirty hands? Connectix for muzzling FWB, FWB for accepting such a deal (but was it a deal?), and M$, well, time will tell how exactly...
I wouldn't be surprised if M$ released VPC for a while, baiting, say, corporate users, then drop it, forcing these into a Mac to PC switch. But that's a wild guess!
...a fresh firmware, ready to be patched.
Thank you Apple, and please, please, release many more firmwares...
Well, as long as the obfuscation, whatever be it, is constant, you don't even need to unobfuscate it, as sending the obfuscated password is enough to gain administrative access to the base station.
Unobfuscating the password is merely a convenience to avoid patching the base administration software.
On a security point of vue, this is the same as a login process. The Airport base would have to use secured login methods (like public key exchange or challenge/reply, etc) to prevent such flaws.
This is true for every network appliance, or for the matter, every time a login is done thru an unsecured channel. This is why ssh exists.
My ideal browser would be something like Chimera with iCab's filter manager (with real regexps, not the current fakes). iCab filter manager just rocks. Period.
Maybe the guys at iCab should use Gecko and concentrate on what is their added value?
Aaaah, let me dream...