Don't take your guns to town

So there is this "Hack into a Mac wirelessly" attack that is making the news these days. Jon "Jonny Cache" Ellch and David Maynor showed a video at DEFCON demonstrating the attack. Many people opine that the reason for the video (rather than a live demonstration) is that Ellch/Maynor don't want to expose the details of the attack by having someone 'sniffing' in the room. I belive its that they are afraid of being exposed as frauds because if they exposed the details, everyone would walk away in disgust, because it's a trivial, straight-forward "we have code running in both machines" style of attack. Jim Thompson thoroughly deconstructs the supposed ‘exploit’ video.

Read the entire article HERE.