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Hacker Super Bowl Pits Mac OS Vs. Linux, Vista

Posted by Sander_Marechal on · 5 comments
CIO; By Robert McMillan
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It's the most anticipated matchup in the hacker world: Linux versus Mac OS X versus Vista. Who will get hacked first? That's what organizers of the CanSecWest security conference hope to discover this week as they give show attendees a shot at hacking into the three laptops they've put on display here in Vancouver. The catch? They have to use a brand-new 'zero day' attack that nobody has seen before. The prize? US$20,000, plus you get to keep the laptop.

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I want to see the article that says who won, how, and which machines yielded first!

This is like seeing the teaser for a movie, then wondering if I'll ever get to find out how it ends.
Slashdot is reporting that the macbook air was the first to fail: http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/28/0126221
OS X yielded first.

EDIT: Looks like we posted at the same time. Thanks for the link.
Fascinating.

I must admit I thought the Vista system would go first, but I guess there's more motivation when the Mac hardware is twice the price. ;^)

I wonder if the winner will put Linux on it?
There have been rumors of a new exploit in Safari for the last week. This guy probably had an exploit ready and tried it.

If he had an unknown exploit for Vista, he would have used that. If he had an unknown exploit for Linux, he would have used that.

If the exploit is in Safari, is it also in the KHTML engine? Should the Konquerer team ask for details?

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