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To: chaos_5
OK, maybe I'm just some kind of nut job, but it seems to me that the last thing you would want to to is tick off a bunch of professional hackers.

They are already ticked off.

Last year, a couple of these Black Hatters in a video demonstrated a claimed Zero Day infiltration of an Apple MacBook Pro at the convention that gained user level access through a flaw in the MacBook's WIFI.

However, the demonstrated exploit turned out to be done by using non-Apple hardware (third party USB WIFI card) and software (third party WIFI drivers) that is NOT installed in a MacBook Pro. The demonstrated flaws were in the third party stuff that would not normally be used on a Mac because the functionality is already built in. . . but they touted it as a Mac vulnerability. It took months to clear that FUD party up and get them to admit it was NOT a flaw in OS X as shipped by Apple.

The vulnerability was much more common on Windows computers that DID use the third party stuff... but the demonstrators said they chose to use a MacBook Pro because "they wanted to stick a lit cigarette into the eyes of smug Mac users"—so they cheated to damage Apple's reputation.

7 posted on 08/05/2008 9:01:14 PM PDT by Swordmaker (Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
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To: Swordmaker

For all the supposed smugness of Mac users, it seems to me that Mac detractors are the truly self-righteous.


9 posted on 08/05/2008 9:17:23 PM PDT by Terpfen (Romney's loss in Florida is STILL a catastrophe. Hello, McCandidate!)
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