Gentlemen, start your auras....

[Mike Fishcake]

http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/18/a...ms-were-false/

[charleski]

Umm, huh? The issue with the use of a 3rd-party card was known at the time the initial reports spread, the big deal was that they claimed the flaw exists in Apple's drivers as well.

TUAW (which is where the engadget report comes from) claims, "Sounds like SecureWorks, the company who sponsored all this Mac hackery, is finally fessing up to their falsification and admitting that they, in fact, did not find the flaw in Apple's drivers". If you follow the link they provide to back that up it turns out that there's no evidence of any such admission. Looks like sloppy journalism to me.

The flaw has still not been actually demonstrated on Apple wifi cards, but I can't see that anything has changed since the initial reports. The headlines in both the engadget and TUAW blogs are incorrect.

[unrealrocks]

I didn't even hear about it in the first place, but I think a lot of people don't like the slightly arrogant 'Mac are perfect' thing. Lets just hope now more and more people are trying to attack them they really are as secure as they say they are

[Tarffie]

Nevermind, ignore me.

[charleski]

It's a bit overly verbose, but you can read a thorough account of the current situation here. The author clearly doesn't believe the hack is possible on AirPort cards, but it does go into detail about the whole issue with a lot of quotes.