At the Black Hat USA 2007 conference in Las Vegas today, the first ever “Pwnie” awards were doled out, including the award for “Most Overhyped Bug.”
Ryan Naraine reports for ZDNet, “The controversial MacBook Wi-Fi vulnerabilities released by David Maynor at last year’s Black Hat took this dubious award. ‘In the end, the only public information about Maynor’s Wi-Fi vulnerabilities are hype, denial, a media frenzy, and a patch that may or may not have been based on Maynor’s findings,’ the judges said.”
More here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Steve” for the heads up.]
Hopefully, if there’s any justice in this world, his prize was a stab in the eye with a lit cigarette.
Funny. That MDN take is right on point.
Man, that “award” feels more like a peer smackdown.
Better get your kicks in with that cigarette thing.
Those things will be classified as deadly weapons soon.
Possibly the missing “WMD”s we never found.
Hmm…
HAHAHAHA I could not be happier. That stupid idiot deserves such a badge of dishonor.
Does he have a blog?
They should have given him a Zune as a prize. Too cruel?
Ponied – like Charlie the Unicorn. Snort!
ahhh. justice is served.
and like “revenge”, it is best served cold.
Guys,
This is Maynor being rejected by the black hats, with as much ridicule as he got from the Mac community. Karma’s a bitch.
-jcr
Guys,
This is Maynor being rejected by the black hats, with as much ridicule as he got from the Mac community. Karma’s a bitch.
-jcr
Guys,
This is Maynor being rejected by the black hats, with as much ridicule as he got from the Mac community. Karma’s a bitch.
-jcr
Guys,
This is Maynor being rejected by the black hats, with as much ridicule as he got from the Mac community. Karma’s a bitch.
-jcr
@ NSFY
Now that’s just plain mean.
I say we just kick him into our engine like we did with that Crow guy of Niska’s.
Pretty cunning, doncha think?
And now Maynor is trying the same old crap with the iPhone. The moron never seems to learn.
Here’s Maynor’s newest gig or bug. Macworld UK and the rest of the world need to be warned about this idiot. Check out Macworld UK the article headlined “WiFi could pose Web 2.0 data risk, researchers warn”
Here’s a little.
“Users who access Google’s Gmail or the Facebook social-networking site over WiFi could put their accounts at risk of being hijacked, according to research from Errata Security, a computer security company.
It’s not just those sites but any rich web applications that exchange account information with users, including blogging sites such as Blogspot or even software-as-a-service offerings such as Salesforce.com, that could pose a risk for users, wrote Errata’s Robert Graham, CEO, and David Maynor, chief technology officer, in a paper.”