More on the "Black Hat/DEFCON wireless drivers hack on a Mac" thing

[Kevin Purcell]

> Jon Ellch -- aka Johnny Cache -- was one of the presenters of the  
> now infamous "faux disclosure" at Black Hat and DEFCON last month.  
> Ellch and co-presenter Dave Maynor have gone silent since then,  
> fueling speculation that the entire presentation may have been a  
> hoax. Ellch finally broke the silence in an email to the Daily Dave  
> security mailing list over the weekend, and one thing is clear: he  
> is chafing under the cone of silence which has been placed over the  
> two of them.

Read on for more info ... especially the bit about

> In short, anyone qualified to sit and discuss the look and feel of  
> changes of Mail.app probably has no idea
>        what ring0 code execution means.

Yeap because those two things are mutually exclusive (I think he  
means he doesn't understand UI design but does do r1ng 0 :-)

It is standard INFOSEC-machoism but there are interesting details of  
the vulnerability here.

<http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/09/04/138253>

<http://lists.immunitysec.com/pipermail/dailydave/2006-September/ 
003459.html>
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Kevin Purcell
kevinpurcell at pobox.com