Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on August 09, 2006 05:02 AM
How old are you? 12? I'm sorry to flame you, but you totally deserve it. The only reason the ISS researcher felt the need to quit his job and post the exploit anyway is because Cisco had known of the flaw for a long time and refused to do anything about it. In other words, Cisco was being extremely irresponsible, and he essentially forced Cisco to step up and be a good company.
This isn't the case with the Apple wifi card. It's not even close. We have no reason to suspect that Apple knew about the exploit before ISS told them, and they deserve the professional courtesy of having some time to develop a fix for the problem before the exploit is released into the wild.
Thank goodness for computer security researchers with half a head on their shoulders...or researchers without a giant chip on their shoulder, like the one you seem to have.
What would be the point of releasing the exploit before there was a fix? To prove how 'bad' proprietary software and drivers are? Cry me a freaking river already. This is capitalism, not communism, and if you don't like it, vote with your dollar and buy (or not buy, as the case may be) something else.
Learn about Linux
Download Linux
Get Linux help
You're joking, right?
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on August 09, 2006 05:02 AMThis isn't the case with the Apple wifi card. It's not even close. We have no reason to suspect that Apple knew about the exploit before ISS told them, and they deserve the professional courtesy of having some time to develop a fix for the problem before the exploit is released into the wild.
Thank goodness for computer security researchers with half a head on their shoulders...or researchers without a giant chip on their shoulder, like the one you seem to have.
What would be the point of releasing the exploit before there was a fix? To prove how 'bad' proprietary software and drivers are? Cry me a freaking river already. This is capitalism, not communism, and if you don't like it, vote with your dollar and buy (or not buy, as the case may be) something else.
#