Maynor has a personal beef with Apple since his hyped-up OS X wi-fi exploit turned out not to be and he was humiliated in the community. He was unable to put up or shut up.
” Maynor has a personal beef with Apple since his hyped-up OS X wi-fi exploit turned out not to be and he was humiliated in the community. He was unable to put up or shut up.”
That’s the apple fanboy take. Apple patching the holes he described months later validated him.
Maynor is one of the best vulnerability researchers out there. Sure he has a beef with Apple - they lied about what he found.
The same happened to me in the past - I found a serious remote vulnerability in VERY popular browser plugin that allowed an attacker to take full control of the desktop PC. The vendor refused to admit it or fix it. I released it to Bugtraq. Then they lied to CNET reporters about the impact, silently patched it, and never notified their customers to update. This was back in 99. It happens!