http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2006/08/02/hijacking-a-macbook/ Geek News Central is the technical weblog for Geeks. We Spin tech for the common man. With a twice weekly tech podcast Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:20:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2006/08/02/hijacking-a-macbook/comment-page-1/#comment-2957 bent.corner Thu, 03 Aug 2006 18:39:15 +0000 http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2006/08/02/hijacking-a-macbook/#comment-2957 I just read over at digg how the people doing the demonstration had to use a third-party wireless card instead of the original Apple hardware to take control of the Mac. The lesson here is to not let hackers install their third-party hardware into your Mac. I just read over at digg how the people doing the demonstration had to use a third-party wireless card instead of the original Apple hardware to take control of the Mac. The lesson here is to not let hackers install their third-party hardware into your Mac.

]]> http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2006/08/02/hijacking-a-macbook/comment-page-1/#comment-2956 sam_abuelsamid Thu, 03 Aug 2006 18:18:35 +0000 http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2006/08/02/hijacking-a-macbook/#comment-2956 Todd According to this storyhttp://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=2266507 on abc the demonstration on the macbook does not use the built in airport wireless card "Maynor said the MacBook used in the demonstration was not using the wireless gear that shipped with the computer." <span class="mt-export2wp"></span> They used a third party card. This doesn't mean that an airport equipped mac wouldn't be vulnerable in some way. It just shows that when these stories are published, we need to pause and wait for more details. So far all the Mac vulnerability stories have been about a lot of smoke but no fire. <span class="mt-export2wp"></span> <span class="mt-export2wp"></span> Todd
According to this storyhttp://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=2266507 on abc the demonstration on the macbook does not use the built in airport wireless card
“Maynor said the MacBook used in the demonstration was not using the wireless gear that shipped with the computer.”

They used a third party card. This doesn’t mean that an airport equipped mac wouldn’t be vulnerable in some way. It just shows that when these stories are published, we need to pause and wait for more details. So far all the Mac vulnerability stories have been about a lot of smoke but no fire.

]]> http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2006/08/02/hijacking-a-macbook/comment-page-1/#comment-2955 sam_abuelsamid Thu, 03 Aug 2006 16:54:42 +0000 http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2006/08/02/hijacking-a-macbook/#comment-2955 Anyone who thinks that macs are impervious to hacks is a fool. However having said that any machine that someone has physical access to can ultimately be hacked. Also the same kind of thing can be done to windows machines with Atheros (they actually did the mac wireless driver) developed device drivers. Anyone who thinks that macs are impervious to hacks is a fool. However having said that any machine that someone has physical access to can ultimately be hacked. Also the same kind of thing can be done to windows machines with Atheros (they actually did the mac wireless driver) developed device drivers.

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