On 3 Aug 2006, at 14:13, Gilberto Palau wrote:
Get this perspective, answering your points one by one:
1. "Maynor said the two have found at least two similar flaws in device drivers for wireless cards either designed for or embedded in machines running the Windows OS. Still, the presenters said they ultimately decided to run the demo against a Mac due to what Maynor called the "Mac user base aura of smugness on security."
Also, they wanted to target the most hype. Demonstrating this exploit on Windows would have been greeted with a "get in line, pal" attitude.
Sending this out as a specific warning to Mac users is therefore misleading and designed to grab a headline rather than be informational.
I'd be the first to say that Mac users have been ignorant of security issues in the past. But all the hype in the world is not going to fix that. At the end of the day, Apple will have to fix it. (due to the fact that Windows users, despite all the education in the world, remain ignorant of security issues. Education is therefore pointless)
2. Obviously it seems you have never been to blackhat. When they show something there, regardless its on video or a napkin, they all try to replicate it on their own systems. That is what they do there. It doesn't matter if its a video. Its the fact that security hacks like this are important to keep our Aura of Smugness on Security.
Showing a video is very different to a live hack. It belies the DIFFICULTY of performing the hack.
3. Its not trivial? Jeez... You have no idea what you are talking about.
I don't think you understood the sentence. Try again.