Linked List: September 4, 2006
Monday, 4 September 2006
- My Response and Questions to Jon Ellch on the Dailydave Mailing List ★
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And his reply, which, notably, does not answer my simple question of whether they have found an exploit against the stock MacBook card and driver. Ellch writes:
As more patches come out (including Apple’s) we will release more details. Out of respect for secureworks intellectual property, I don’t feel comfortable commenting on the apple situation any more than I already have.
So he thinks Apple has a “patch” coming out, but won’t say whether they found an exploit against the stock AirPort card and driver.
- Jon Ellch Breaks His Silence Regarding MacBook Wi-Fi Hack ★
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I’ll have more to say about this soon, but for now it’s worth pointing out that he hasn’t accepted my challenge. See also: Linux.com and Slashdot.
- Who Writes Wikipedia? ★
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Aaron Swartz:
[Wikipedia founder Jimbo] Wales seems to think that the vast majority of users are just doing the first two (vandalizing or contributing small fixes) while the core group of Wikipedians writes the actual bulk of the article. But that’s not at all what I found. Almost every time I saw a substantive edit, I found the user who had contributed it was not an active user of the site. They generally had made less than 50 edits (typically around 10), usually on related pages. Most never even bothered to create an account.