| Not news. Even if there was an exploit here, Not enough people use macs for this to be considered news. |
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| Obviously DSLR disagrees with your narrow-minded opinion.... |
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| It's not narrow minded, it's called being realistic. No point in pretending mac issues are major news. Do you want to see every little exploit for every distro of linux as a news item? It would be pointless. |
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| said by insomniac84:It's not narrow minded, it's called being realistic. No point in pretending mac issues are major news. Do you want to see every little exploit for every distro of linux as a news item? It would be pointless. A story about a device that allows you direct connection to the internet and supposedly had security issues is news to people interested in broadband which is why we're here. It's even more relevant when the news weeks ago was all about how these black hats exposed some major flaw in the Macbook's wifi which turns out to be a lie.
And no we don't want to see "every little exploit for every distro of linux as a news item" because then we'd have every little/moderate/big exploit from windows as news and it would dilute all the interesting news like this story.
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| said by firephoto:It's even more relevant when the news weeks ago was all about how these black hats exposed some major flaw in the Macbook's wifi which turns out to be a lie. It's not entirely a lie, exploit still exists. |
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Richardson, TX | reply to lucky644
said by lucky644:said by firephoto:It's even more relevant when the news weeks ago was all about how these black hats exposed some major flaw in the Macbook's wifi which turns out to be a lie. It's not entirely a lie, exploit still exists. Okay, yes, the ability to make use of this exploit has been shown to "exist" - but with what third-party card in what configuration? No one outside SecureWorks knows yet because they are not telling - they say it's for the sake of waiting until a patch is available. Right.
As of yesterday, they hadn't even told Apple, apparently.
»www.breakingwindows.com/new/2006···i_ha.php
So what is SecureWorks waiting for? Hmmmmm? 
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That was preposterous! Utter Nonsense! Totally unsupportable drivel! You can't be serious!....Um, what did you say? |
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London, ON | For all we know the guy just had a shell script output some jargon like generating code(I watched the video), waiting for reply etc. and meanwhile they just ssh'd to the machine. This isn't a Mac problem, it's a problem with the 3rd party wireless driver. The problem exists on Windows as well according to those guys. |
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Clearly, Mac OS is not a "distro of linux" and has more desktop users than just about every distro of Linux, so put your straw man away. |
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said by insomniac84:Even if there was an exploit here, Not enough people use macs for this to be considered news. While everything is just up in the air now since we can't trust these folks, keep in mind that they did originally just use a Mac for "wow factor". They claimed that it was a "universal" vulnerability that could target windows as well. |
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