Some in the Mac space even one of the editors here on GNC think the recent MacBook hack was not fair, but I think the follow up post on the Washington Post is pretty clear why they used a third party wireless card, its because Apple pressured them not to show that the Mac’s own wireless cards are hackable!
From the Washington Post:
“During the course of our interview, it came out that Apple had leaned on Maynor and Ellch pretty hard not to make this an issue about the Mac drivers — mainly because Apple had not fixed the problem yet. Maynor acknowledged that he used a third-party wireless card in the demo so as not to draw attention to the flaw resident in Macbook drivers. But he also admitted that the same flaws were resident in the default Macbook wireless device drivers, and that those drivers were identically exploitable.”
Knock Knock Indeed :) [Washington Post]