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To: SmokingJoe
As long as it's able to get at the Macbook that's what counts.

It doesn't "get at the MacBook" at all. It just tells the router to ignore MAC addresses in a range that MacBooks use.

The same "exploit" could be used in reverse, telling the router to only let MacBooks connect and block everything else.

Proves nothing other than the router is easy to hack, not the machines connecting to it.

59 posted on 07/22/2010 10:02:35 AM PDT by kevkrom (De-fund Obamacare in 2011, repeal in 2013!)
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To: kevkrom
If it doesn't get at the mac, what on earth are you up in arms about?
Every security exploit uses something or the other to get at the user. I don't care if it's the router that is not secure, or it's through the naivete of the humans that are using the operating system, if there is a way that hackers can get as the mac, its a security vulnerability.
The mac has never been as secure as Steve Jobs has been lying about in his PC versus Mac ads on TV, and Windows 7 has smoked Snow Leopard mac in every head to head security test I have seen.
65 posted on 07/22/2010 10:17:23 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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