tuaw.com— "Remember those hackers in the Washington Post story who claimed to have hacked a MacBook's wireless drivers to gain control of it?"
Aug 18, 2006View in Crawl 4
@ThinkBoxActually, there's most probably quite a lot of exploits for OS X that aren't made public, simply because they'd serve no purpose for the people that found them if they were.
This is just like the story yesterday about the same topic. Secure Works has never retracted their statement or exploit for the drivers for the wireless cards (not Apple or PC specific).Quit trying to misdirect people. This is total Mac propaganda.Get over it and don't use third party cards.Personally I like 3rd party cards for packet injection. I'm pretty sure the preinstalled card in a Mac will not do it.
I love my mac. It does what I want, and I didn't have to dick around with it for hours when I got it out of the box.My old Windows machine was good, too, and I liked tweaking little things to make it really unique.I generally like the things that Apple makes, but you mac fanboys and girls are making the rest of us look bad. I hate it when you say things that amount to, "You're just jealous because I have a better OS." How about when you do marketing for a company, they pay you for it instead of the other way around?
@meatheadmcgriffinI'm in no way a troll. LOL! You have me laughing this morning. I guess you can't read this since you blocked me but in my defense I comment on a lot of stories. Not just Apple stories.I like OS X and so I read the Apple section. Its just posts like this that get under my skin. Its some blog opinion article that gets Dugg up by Fanboys. Its as misleading as the original article that was posted about "Hacking a Mac in under 60 seconds".I'm not a bad guy or a troll. I just dislike liars.
this is not off topic, this would help wireless security, even prevent buggy 3rd party drivers from opening a window into your system.....Mac enthusiasts are so convinced of a false reality of apple's security that they can't even recognize a good critique when they see one.FYI even if the root account is disabled, MANY applications still run as root. take a simple "sudo ps aux" (or try "ps aux" but this may not yield all the results) from your terminal window and you can see how many processes are running as root.
The people involved had clear anti-Apple bias. I find it incredibly immature and childish that they would falsely claim that their explot worked on Apple native hardware with the malicious intent that is so clearly there. What have we come to as a community where we're lying to take shots at people who disagree with us? This debate of Windows vs. Mac OS is tainted by these childish actions, and any serious discussion on the topic is drowned out. Both Apple and Microsoft have their place in this world, and both their operating systems have their benefits and drawbacks. Microsoft has quality control problems, Apple has market share and software issues. But we need to address these constructively, and try to understand how to remedy them, not try to insult or abuse the user base. SecureWorks should be ashamed that their employees would do this to Apple fans, and also to Windows fans who were lied to and now are seen as being just as spiteful as the people who wrote these lies.
"Actually, there's most probably quite a lot of exploits for OS X that aren't made public, simply because they'd serve no purpose for the people that found them if they were."No Purpose? Are you a gentlemen or something? The purpose would be bragging rights. Unlike you sucking c**k like the f**king homo that you are the person who actually managed to take down a mac would be talked about for months to come.
quakesAug 19, 2006
@ThinkBoxActually, there's most probably quite a lot of exploits for OS X that aren't made public, simply because they'd serve no purpose for the people that found them if they were.
xswagAug 19, 2006
This is just like the story yesterday about the same topic. Secure Works has never retracted their statement or exploit for the drivers for the wireless cards (not Apple or PC specific).Quit trying to misdirect people. This is total Mac propaganda.Get over it and don't use third party cards.Personally I like 3rd party cards for packet injection. I'm pretty sure the preinstalled card in a Mac will not do it.
missflibblesAug 19, 2006
I love my mac. It does what I want, and I didn't have to dick around with it for hours when I got it out of the box.My old Windows machine was good, too, and I liked tweaking little things to make it really unique.I generally like the things that Apple makes, but you mac fanboys and girls are making the rest of us look bad. I hate it when you say things that amount to, "You're just jealous because I have a better OS." How about when you do marketing for a company, they pay you for it instead of the other way around?
xswagAug 19, 2006
@meatheadmcgriffinI'm in no way a troll. LOL! You have me laughing this morning. I guess you can't read this since you blocked me but in my defense I comment on a lot of stories. Not just Apple stories.I like OS X and so I read the Apple section. Its just posts like this that get under my skin. Its some blog opinion article that gets Dugg up by Fanboys. Its as misleading as the original article that was posted about "Hacking a Mac in under 60 seconds".I'm not a bad guy or a troll. I just dislike liars.
hickeroarAug 19, 2006
It is interesting to me how they posted NO link to anything "official" about this. It's just their word you're taking here.
adfsjAug 19, 2006
this is not off topic, this would help wireless security, even prevent buggy 3rd party drivers from opening a window into your system.....Mac enthusiasts are so convinced of a false reality of apple's security that they can't even recognize a good critique when they see one.FYI even if the root account is disabled, MANY applications still run as root. take a simple "sudo ps aux" (or try "ps aux" but this may not yield all the results) from your terminal window and you can see how many processes are running as root.
psygnisfiveAug 20, 2006
The people involved had clear anti-Apple bias. I find it incredibly immature and childish that they would falsely claim that their explot worked on Apple native hardware with the malicious intent that is so clearly there. What have we come to as a community where we're lying to take shots at people who disagree with us? This debate of Windows vs. Mac OS is tainted by these childish actions, and any serious discussion on the topic is drowned out. Both Apple and Microsoft have their place in this world, and both their operating systems have their benefits and drawbacks. Microsoft has quality control problems, Apple has market share and software issues. But we need to address these constructively, and try to understand how to remedy them, not try to insult or abuse the user base. SecureWorks should be ashamed that their employees would do this to Apple fans, and also to Windows fans who were lied to and now are seen as being just as spiteful as the people who wrote these lies.
Closed AccountAug 21, 2006
"Actually, there's most probably quite a lot of exploits for OS X that aren't made public, simply because they'd serve no purpose for the people that found them if they were."No Purpose? Are you a gentlemen or something? The purpose would be bragging rights. Unlike you sucking c**k like the f**king homo that you are the person who actually managed to take down a mac would be talked about for months to come.
Closed AccountAug 21, 2006
Im sorry that was uncalled of me to call you a homo I apologize....Pillowbiter.