2008 Hackathon Results

[munkyeetr]

I found this on another forum I frequent and thought some here would be interested.

The MacBook Air went first; a tiny Fujitsu laptop running Vista was hacked on the last day of the contest; but it was Linux, running on a Sony Vaio, that remained undefeated as conference organizers ended a three-way computer hacking challenge Friday at the CanSecWest conference.

Read the article here

 

[f.i.t.h]

I heard about that.

The MacBook got hacked within 2 minutes of the 2nd day.

 

[brian]

hahaah which is extreamly funny since it IS linux lol.



go vista

 

[hermeslyre]

Yeah, but those pwn2own hackers were total noobs [sic]. The rules only allowed remote attacks, but no-one could do it, even with Vista. The second day they laxed the rules and let them have direct control.

 

[munkyeetr]

hahaah which is extreamly funny since it IS linux lol.



go vista

Mac is not Linux. It is UNIX-based. Linux is also UNIX-based, but they are very different.

 

[Jhow]

Vista and Linux were neck and neck until they let "popular mainstream programs" into the mix. Adobe flash...

 

[Ambushed]

Linux owns!

 

[G25r8cer]

Poor Mac. NOT!!