Johnny Cache Breaks Silence On Wi-Fi Exploit

Joe Barr writes, "Johnny Cache — aka Jon Ellch — is chafing under the cone of silence placed over him and co-presenter Dave Maynor about the Wi-Fi exploit they presented at Black Hat and DEFCON last month. So he has finally broken his silence on NewsForge in hopes of ending the personal attacks coming from what he implies is a smear campaign started by Apple." (Newsforge and Slashdot are both owned by OSTG.)

Johhny Cache writes, "If you're going to post a news story that is a rehash of my post to a mailing list, I would much prefer it if people actaully just read the post in its entirety."

Re:"Implies" my fanny. He says it right out.

[rbannon]

If that's true, I think Microsoft should hire away Apple's lawyers.

Re:So..?

[Who235]

Maybe he doesn't want one, seeing as how they're so easy to exploit. . .

Re:So..?

[Anonymous Coward]

And some huge legal costs.

I mean, MacBooks are overpriced, but not that overpriced.

Re:something funny is going on here

[Mononoke]

smears, cones and chafing? sounds just like apple

Or a hot date.

Re:something funny is going on here

[gardyloo]

smears, cones and chafing? sounds just like apple

      Funny. I was thinking of Madonna in the 80's.

Re:Article text

[cHiphead]

my guess would be its another NSA exploit built into wireless cards. It'd make sense. Plus his reference to black helicopters in a seemingly innocent but suspect way.

*engage nutjob conspiracy theories*

Cheers. ;)

It's all so obvious

[lullabud]

At least, that's the message I'm getting from this thread. Everything about this episode is obvious. Each contradicting story is just, like, so totally obvious.

Mac Jihad...

[bigtallmofo]

The analogy is actually pretty apt. You have a group of people that basically run the world - "The West" (in this case, non-Apple users) and a downtrodden ragtag group of extremely proud people convinced that their way is better - "The Islamist Fascists" (in this case, Apple users).

It's very common for them to lash out at everyone because of their true feelings of inferiority and lack of understanding as to why everyone doesn't see the world like they do.

Case in point - I'll be modded -9 Troll in about 30 seconds as every Mac user with mod points steps on their own mother to mod be down.

Re:Apple threw dirt at him?

[Hercules Peanut]

I think you're exacty right.

The worst thing about the dirt throwing smear campaign concept is that they (he?) fired first with the "Mac user base aura of smugness on security." comment. Sorry folks, that couldn't be taken as flattery by anyone. In fact, given Apple's lawyers, you might not be surprised if they considered that the proverial throwing down of the gauntlett. It was a poor choice of words in any event and could in no way be expected to endear them to Apple.

I can hear it now: (Entering Johny Cache dream sequence)

Lynn Fox: Hey Steve, these hackers just announced an exploit and demoed it on one of our new Macbooks. They thought we would appreciate it because of our current Mac user base aura of smugness on security.

Steve jobs: Wow! That's great. Hey Lynn, how about calling the legal department and having them issue a letter of congratulations on my behalf to these very helpful young men.

Lynn Fox: I'll take care of it immediately. Would you like for me to acknowledge our failure as a company on Macworld too?

Steve Jobs: Sure Lynn, that would be swell. Oh, we might want to contact one of our programmers to see if there is any possibility of fixing this.

Lynn Fox: Good idea Steve.

Steve Jobs: Maybe we should give these guys a grant.

Lyn Fox: I'm sure our guys in legal will take care of that too.

Steve Jobs: I have a really good feeling about this.