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After all this in security I’ve seen many media wh0re in Defcon or BlackHat but this year has been the most amazing with the so called “Hijacking a Macbook in 60 Seconds or Less” exploit on OSX.

There many things to say about this exploit which is not universal: I mean it WON’T work against any MacBook Pro out of the box.
It’s a personnal message for “Johny Cache”, a challenge.
Make me a live demo against a MacBook pro in front of me and you’ll get 1,000USD in cash.

[url=http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2006/08/hijacking_a_macbook_in_60_seco.html] washington post[/url] showed a video of the Ellch/Maynor presentating on a new method they discovered for remotely circumventing the security of an Apple Macbook computer to seize total control over the machine.

After few minutes watching the video, a bit of reflexion, a bit of experience more than 15 years pasted in the security business I came quickly to an easy conclusion: media wh0reing is officialy a national sport in Vegas during BH and Defcon.

Let’s try to make this only based on facts:
The target is a MacBook (aka new ibook with Intel proc.), Jon is using a 3rd party wireless card for not “targeting Apple”. Seriously have you ever seen a card of that size? Cash pretend the exploit works against the builtin airport card, fine show us. Which driver do you use?

Turning the Dell from the video as an Access Point, and using an exploit “badseed”. First your MacBook will ask first if an open network is found if you want to join it or not.

There is a strange icone just under the macintosh HD that displays only when a network folder is connected. For eg an .Mac home folder. What is it?

Sorry Cash you didn’t convince the community, it’s not an apple geek stuff, no evidence, no (POC)Proof of Concept. I just remember that many journalists are rushing after the scoop of the year each time they are in Vegas. Maybe they should not follow the white rabbit…

So Mr Cash and Mr Maynor, you want to get a real challenge? Ok make me a live demo on a Macbook or Macbook pro in exchange you’ll receive [b]1,000USD in cash[/b] (sorry couldn’t prevent me). yes one thousand US dollars and [b]it’s not a joke.[/b]

Rules are simple tell me where ever you what to make the demo, earth is my playground 🙂