Re:Mac Users (Score 3, Informative)

The title of the article is misleading: the macbook was not hacked using its normal built-in wireless adapter and its Apple drivers. The video (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/vide o/2006/08/02/VI2006080201424.html) of the exploit *clearly* shows and explains that they are using an *external* third party wireless adapter which comes with its own wireless driver. This driver is the culpit and is succeptible to the exploit. The wireless adapter they demoes is widly used with PC laptop and the drivers on PC are similarly flawed. This demo was to show that device driver makers need to be a lot less careless and test their drivers a lot more.
One thing that is unclear in the demo is whether root access was gained. The demo shows creating, reading, and deleting files on the MacBook user's Desktop. I would have like them to do a "rm -rf /" and see whether they could really do this.