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Matt B. wrote:
"Why can some enterprising hacker just write a driver for this to take advantage of N today?"
**just write a driver**?? No, sorry, but it isn't as simple as you've tried to show. There's a lot going on in wi-fi with the protocols, security modes, and other features. You don't "just write a driver" for it because you'd have to support b/g/n. You'd have to test your driver with all sorts of third party products for compatibility. And 802.11n incorporates multi-path transmissions to achieve all that data throughput, so the hacker would have to understand how that works or there's really no point.