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August 3rd, 2006, 08:13 AM
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| Hijack a MacBook in 60 Seconds or Less Slashdot, Ars Technica, and a blog on the Washington Post all have info on this vulnerability. It involves a MacBook with the Airport card powered on, and wireless preferences set to connect to any available open network...read on. We occasionally get posts on these boards where people give kneejerk "Don't worry about security, it's a Mac" responses to security questions. This exploit should be a reminder that these kinds of responses are never helpful, and generally misleading. Note that these exploits were also repeated in similar form on Windows and Linux laptops. OS X is, and has always been, a member of the "crackable OSes" club. It's a club that includes in its membership every reasonably advanced operating system.
__________________ Matt (billbaloney) 1.67GHz "October 2005" G4 Aluminum 1.5 GB RAM, OS 10.5.2 Lots of other things around Helen Marie Holford Industries |
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August 3rd, 2006, 08:51 AM
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| See this thread Hacking Mac Book Pro
__________________ MacBook Pro 2.16GHz Core2Duo 3GB RAM, G4 1.4GHz OSX Tiger 1.25GB RAM, Dual 2GHz G5 OSX Tiger 2GB RAM (freakin shweet) Athlon 64 Windoze XP for school work (programming) 1GB RAM dferns@macosx.com |
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