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I'm not going down on my knees to beg for it that's for sure
I spoke with Lynn Fox on the phone and most of what she told me she won't say on the record. But I emailed this series of questions to her and she dodged it.

Question:
"No way no how at no time did Maynor or SecureWorks ever inform Apple in any manner that a possible hack existed for a stock Apple laptop wireless configuration and Apple does not believe such a hack is currently known."

Answer (didn't answer actual question):
"SecureWorks has provided Apple with no code or evidence that would show that a MacBook can be exploited with the wireless hardware and software that is shipped with the system."

Question:
"I don't believe that answers my question. Let me state this another way. Did SecureWorks or David Maynor ever attempt to indicate to Apple that an exploitable flaw exists in the stock Apple MacBook wireless laptop regardless of whether Apple believes this qualifies as "evidence" or not?"

It's been a week since I asked this in email and I left voice mails. Fox refuses to answer.

Here's a blog dedicated to bashing me primarily.
http://www.macalope.com/?p=14
"But Apple took a shot across the bow of SecureWorks? professionalism. They botched their delivery and then - according to the Macalope?s Apple sources - provided only vague information to Apple about how the exploit can be executed."

So it appears he just proved himself wrong all along and my camp has been telling the truth all along. If Apple is now leaking to Mac bloggers that a wireless patch will come out and they're changing the story that Maynor and Ellch are "frauds" to "unprofessional" for refusing to share exploit source code. It sounds like Apple was too lazy or incompetent to do their own work after they were given the crash dumps and disassembled drivers and it's sour grapes.
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