ZDNet's Ryan Naraine reports that hacker David Maynor took the stage at Black Hat DC 2007, where he "offered an apology for mistakes made, provided a live demo of the controversial MacBook Wi-Fi takeover and promised to release e-mail exchanges, crash/panic logs and exploit code to clear his tarnished name."

Maynor's demo proved that he was able to crash a MacBook via a device driver flaw. "He then ran the exploit against a fully patched MacBook to prove that Apple did fix the exact issue he reported, even if the company opted not to credit him, his co-presenter Jon 'Johnny Cache' Ellch or his then employer [SecureWorks]," Naraine writes.

"I screwed up a bit [at last year's Black Hat in Las Vegas]," Maynor said. "I probably shouldn't have used an Apple machine in the video demo and I definitely should not have discussed it [with] a journalist ahead of time."

Maynor says full info regarding the flaw will be posted on the Errata Security blog.

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