Apple Hacker Charlie Miller To Demo Dangers of Near-Field Communications 149
An anonymous reader writes "Apple's hacker nemesis Charlie Miller, who the company banned from its app store developer program, apparently hasn't been waiting around for his suspension to be lifted. His latest pet project is hacking near-field communications (NFC), and at Black Hat USA in Vegas this month, he will demonstrate the dangers of using your smartphone to pay your cab fare. (But when his Apple 'sentence' is up, look out)."
Article submitter's an idiot (Score:5, Informative)
1) Apple phones don't have NFC chips in them so Charlie Miller cannot be "exposing them"
2) Charlie Millier will be exposing security problems of NFC with Android phones.
3) Charlie Miller is also Google's nemesis and has exposed how silly Android security testing is:
http://www.darkreading.com/vulnerability-management/167901026/security/client-security/240003490/apple-ban-gives-miller-time-to-hack-other-things.html [darkreading.com]
4) timothy seems to have an axe to grind against Apple so he's submitting these idiotic articles lately. It's he, however, that looks stupid as a result.
Re:What makes you think his "sentence" is ever up? (Score:5, Informative)
there is no NFC on the iphone now, nothing has been announced for iOS 6 and it's only a rumor for the next iphone
how is he going to embarrass apple since they only have a few patents for NFC. and that's only because apple patents everything, even tech they don't end up using.
if anything he's going to embarrass google since they are pushing NFC and google wallet
Re:No wonder Apple hates him (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Article submitter's an idiot (Score:2, Informative)
It's he, however, that looks stupid as a result.
Please don't get grammar partially right. Either say "it's him, however, that..." or "it's he, however, who...". Thank you; carry on.
Re:What makes you think his "sentence" is ever up? (Score:0, Informative)
Most people don't buy Apple products because they're ignorant, they buy them for their perceived quality of the product.
And speaking of ignorance, let me point out a few things, friend:
* "people's"
* "they're"
* "though"
Oh, and no Apple product cost twice what it should, they are comparable in price to any business-class Dell or HP. There is no 500GB HD for $200, so you are just a filthy fucking liar trying to spread propaganda which you can't back up.
Re:What makes you think his "sentence" is down? (Score:5, Informative)
How are they censoring him? He uploaded an exploit into the App Store. If he wanted to bring attention to it, all he had to do was to contact Apple or put something on the net. Instead he violated the terms of use and his developer agreement and uploaded said exploit instead.
Re:Dear Apple: (Score:1, Informative)
You realize it's ultimately Unix losing it, right?
Re:What makes you think his "sentence" is ever up? (Score:5, Informative)
Oh, and no Apple product cost twice what it should, they are comparable in price to any business-class Dell or HP. There is no 500GB HD for $200, so you are just a filthy fucking liar trying to spread propaganda which you can't back up.
They recently listed a 640 GB for $199 [apple.com]
They list a 4GB ECC 1333 DIMM module for $150 [apple.com]
Newegg has a 8GB ECC 1333 DIMM module for $68 [newegg.com]
So from where I sit it looks like Apple products cost twice what they should. .... just saying.
Re:What makes you think his "sentence" is ever up? (Score:3, Informative)
So, let's start with the cheapest laptop Apple makes, the 13 inch MBP - i5 with HD4000 graphics and 4GB RAM, 500GB drive at $1199.
Dell - no similar laptop, even their $1800 or so Lattitude [dell.com] only has HD3000 graphics, they're all 2nd gen i5 processors.
HP has two at first look: $999 model [hp.com] and a $1399 model [hp.com]. Reviewing the specs, however, show that these are actually competitors to the 13" Mac Air, at $1199 which weighs less and comes with better confirmed battery life than HP posted. So, HP is also appears to be out in most comparisons, although they might have a slightly less expensive Air model. I didn't look deep enough to figure out exactly what the differences between their $999 and $1399 models were, nor how they compare exactly with the Mac Air. I just gave them the benefit of the doubt and stated they were mostly comparable, and dropped the issue of screen resolution differences (HP is wider, but shorter than the Mac Air, but not enough to belabor over in this comparison)
I didn't bother to look any further - I think the above speaks for itself across 2 product comparisons and continues to support what I found a year ago when matching 15" laptops. There is little, if any, "Apple tax" on the surface, and none when looking at what comes with the system as a whole, at least for a large portion of their products.