Def Con 19: Charlie Miller Reveals Apple Battery Security Flaw

The security expert who made waves last week when he announced that he had hacked into a Macintosh laptop battery explained on Saturday how an oversight by Apple played a key role in his achievement. At the Def Con 19 hacker conference in Las Vegas, security expert Charlie Miller described Apple's security lapse involving a Texas Instruments processor built into the laptop's battery.

According to Miller, Apple didn't change two of the processor's passwords, which he called the "Unseal key" and the "Full-access key," from the default values set by the manufacturer.

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