Aaron Adams’s Blowhard Blog

What’s the difference between Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, and Windows Vista?

Microsoft employees are looking forward to Leopard.

I read this blurb today from John Gruber’s Daring Fireball (emphasis added):

The Washington Post’s Brian Krebs reports on a supposed wireless networking exploit that allows a MacBook to be hijacked. I smell bullshit, though — if you watch the video, the exploit apparently requires the MacBook to be using a third-party wireless card. Given that all MacBooks come with built-in AirPort support, how many MacBook users are actually susceptible to this? Any?

Worse, Krebs’s post makes no mention of this, instead making it sound as though the exploit works against MacBooks using their built-in wireless cards and drivers. If it’s truly the case that this particular exploit only works if a MacBook is using a third-party Wi-Fi card and driver software, it’s sensationalism at its worst — a case of supposed security experts impugning Apple’s reputation for the sole purpose of drawing attention to themselves.

Actually, I’d say that it’s a case of supposed security experts impugning Apple’s reputation for the sole purpose of impugning Apple’s reputation.

From the “security experts” themselves:

“We’re not picking specifically on Macs here, but if you watch those ‘Get a Mac’ commercials enough, it eventually makes you want to stab one of those users in the eye with a lit cigarette or something.”

You are specifically picking on Macs, and your motivation to make dubious security claims about a computing platform is because you don’t like their commercials. That’s immature at best and a complete credibility destroyer. You’ve let a television commercial create a sense of personal animosity rather than looking past it and going ahead with your life. Why should anyone attribute any priority to what you have to say when it is rooted in disingenuousness and irrationality from the beginning?

Late addition: More thoughts from John Gruber, asking some very good questions and reinforcing my own points.