Let me see if I can wrap my head around this — some bored students figured out what the MAC address range is on the iPhones, and they styled an attack using a couple of Linux machines hidden somewhere on campus to masquerade as Apple ‘troublemakers’, and are sniggering at the resulting buffoonery created between the Duke ‘network admins’ and the press.

Hello!?!??!? If these are actually the people responsible for Duke’s network, they would have better communication skills — what they are saying is happening is less unlikely than impossible (unless the iPhone and Cisco’s routers’ SuperPowers are being boosted by the Earth’s yellow sun and are no longer hindered by their original design limitations).

Why has this been going on for several days and yet no one has reported the same issue on another network?

It’s because: It’s not happening on Duke’s network, either. It’s a hack. A scam. A ruse.

By some students who can probably be identified by a duct-taped WiFi canon made from a couple of Pringles cans protruding from their backpacks.

The ‘reporter’ should be ashamed for not doing his homework.