So does this mean those of us with Apple machines and apple wireless cards are safe?
Wednesday, August 9, 20065:05 PMLee Larsonleelarson at mac.com >On Aug 9, 2006, at 3:16 PM, Jane Blake Acree asked: > >> Have to wonder about this third-party wireless card they used. >> >> What do you think, Lee? > >A lot of third-party drivers are buggy. It's unfortunate in this case >that the headlines made it sound like an Apple problem. Apple is >asking for such coverage with the hubris shown in its Mac dude versus >Windows dork ad campaign. > >Here's the way a lot of the third-party drivers for devices get written: > >Company A makes a new whatzit gadget based on a new whatzit chip from >Company B. Company C knows there will be many companies making >whatzits based on the chips from Company B, so they write a generic >driver program for the chip and sell customized versions of it to >Compaany A and Company A's competitors. This could mean almost every >whatzit out there is using the code from Company C. > >Now, suppose there's a bug in the whatzit code from Company C, or the >chip from Company B has a weakness. An exploit may work on most >whatzits. > >This exact thing happened last year to companies using BroadComm >Ethernet controller chips and some years before that to Intel on its >original EEPRo100 Ethernet cards. > > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be August 22 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
