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Sorry Security: "I owe David Maynor and Jon Ellch an apology. Several weeks ago, in a column titled “Quack Hackers,” I described their presentation at this year’s Black Hat USA security conference as one of a pair of “hoax hacks” and “rigged demos of make-believe security holes.” At Black Hat, Maynor and Ellch (who hacks under the name “Johnny Cache”) showed how they could hack into a Macintosh laptop via Wi-Fi, as long as the Mac was using a no-name Wi-Fi card with buggy drivers. But Maynor and Ellch also told a Washington Post reporter they could pull the same trick on stock Mac Wi-Fi — a trick they refused to demonstrate. Baloney, I said. It’s bogus, a publicity stunt using Apple’s name to grab headlines. "

Source: http://www.computerworld.com/