Nickname: Jimmy

Review: If you're that worried about the security of your Wi-Fi connection, just go to www.anchorfree.com to download their free HotSpot Shield.

Date reviewed: Jan 9, 2007 6:11 PM

Nickname: Jim

Review: How come you were so quick to pick up on the story of a Macbook being hacked? Yet slow when it's been revealed as being fake? Maynor lied when he said he was using Apple's own wireless drivers and Krebs misrepresented the facts.

Date reviewed: Aug 21, 2006 3:12 AM

Nickname: Gumbo

Review: We spent hundreds of billions dollars on the Iraq War and oil consumption. We haven't spent a dime on wireless Internet securtiy. Big Oil prefers that you drive to places to do business rather than sitting back and doing it online. They are trying to sell more and more oil to you gas guzzlers.

Date reviewed: Aug 16, 2006 6:40 PM

Nickname: Auditor

Review: Articles and demos tend to oversimplify the problems, and leave out answers to questions that aren't specific to the point they're making. Two things strike me: - You can circumvent encrypted router sign-ons, which means you're in without worrying about a MAC address (not MacIntosh, but 'machine addressability code'). - You're also bypassing penetration detection software, because you're already interacting with the machine, as if you were in control of the keyboard. Firewalls won't help, because they're pointed at the traffic to internet sites, and you're not defined as one - just as another computer on the 'protected' network. Spyware won't help either, because it's looking at processes and programs, not at control programs. Scary? Yes it is.

Date reviewed: Aug 7, 2006 10:46 PM

Nickname: o

Review: I heard the Chinese standard for wireless communication can effectively fix this loophole. Thanks to Intel the Chinese intelligence was ambushed in favor of its own W-eakFi-rewall money-making biz. What on earth is the ISO role in protecting consumers' interest by adopting such a vulnerable technology from a must-dominate-the-world company, Intel and its many associates that hate to see the Chinese rise.

Date reviewed: Aug 6, 2006 12:24 AM

Nickname: Steve Wildstrom

Review: This attack gets you directly to the Wi-Fi networking stack. It's inside the firewall when it starts.

Date reviewed: Aug 5, 2006 4:41 PM

Nickname: ddy

Review: I'd like to be the bad guy he refered

Date reviewed: Aug 5, 2006 4:05 AM

Nickname: BobAB

Review: LOL, setup the Dell "attacker" as access point with IP of 192.168.1.1 then have the "victim" set the IP as 192.168.1.50 then connect to the attacker AP... all served ready to be exploited :P This is a bogus and cheap demo... what wouldve been impressive valid as a hack, is to locally type in a password after booting on the macbook to show that it's not automatically logging in. Have the attacker access the MB as root then delete users or even the user that just logged in... yea, it'll happen, maybe when hell freezes over :P

Date reviewed: Aug 4, 2006 10:12 PM

Nickname: MIkey

Review: What about firewalls? The article didn't address whether use of a firewall offered protection. Is it a security issue with the OS before the firewall?

Date reviewed: Aug 4, 2006 8:47 PM

Nickname: heart_man_2000

Review: If you have really followed the the "MacBook Hack" and not just the infamous video, you would found that the hack was done with a third party, USB connected WiFi system. The hardware and the software drivers were both third party. If the internal WiFi card and/or drivers were subject to the same hack, why did they resort to the external WiFi system?

Date reviewed: Aug 4, 2006 8:34 PM