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01 03 07 - 14:40 Remember this?

cnet article:
""I screwed up a little bit," he said. There was a lot of confusion around the Mac hack because the original presentation used a third party Wi-Fi card. However, Maynor and Ellch had in fact also found flaws in Apple's own hardware, he said."

That explains point 3, and partially 2. None of the others though.

Still, "Apple fixed that particular problem in September with Mac OS X 10.4.8, Maynor said.", is the interesting line. At least we know it was patched now then.

I wonder if it was the same exploit released during MoAB? Hmmm.

Apparently he provided Apple with code and packet dumps, and the issue was still not fixed. This may have been the exploit that Apple claimed was found by an internal audit...

There was (and still largely seems to be) a large cloud of misinformation surrounding the whole thing. And why was C|Net always the first to cover the issue (and ZDNet the first to attempt to scare everyone with it)? Hmmm, Microsoft having a large share in advertising at both of these?