Hacker hacks Apple laptop battery

[Stella]

I'm kind of surprised this hasn't been posted before.


http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/mobile/08/05/miller.apple.battery.hacks/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

An interesting interview, overall.

I found this particularly interesting:

You target Apple products primarily. Tell me why you've chosen to do that?

That's a good question. I started this gig four years ago -- and so back then the Apple products were way easier to break into than, say, Windows.

Really?

Yeah, they were very far behind in security.

He does say though that iOS is more secure than other smartphone o/ses.

 

[KnightWRX]

I'm kind of surprised this hasn't been posted before.

Yeah, so am I. If only we'd had a front page story about it :

https://www.macrumors.com/2011/07/2...-but-battery-firmware-vulnerability-surfaces/

 

[Stella]

Yeah, so am I. If only we'd had a front page story about it :

https://www.macrumors.com/2011/07/2...-but-battery-firmware-vulnerability-surfaces/

Thanks - didn't see that in the search results for 'battery'.

Shame OP can't close their own threads.

 

[*LTD*]

http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/mobile/08/05/miller.apple.battery.hacks/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

How long did it take you to do the battery hack?

It took about seven months -- it took a really long time. Most of my research projects are like two weeks, or a month or something. But this one was so far from my comfort zone, and there had been so little written about it that it really took a long time.

Interesting.