Mac OS X first to fall

Mac OS X first to fall
Robert Lemos, 2008-03-27

Mac OS X first to fall 2008-03-28
Anonymous (3 replies)

Sounds like an attempt to smear the world's hottest selling computer to me. If you look at the photos, the hackers are actually allowed access to the machine! I thought hackers hacked in remotely???? Are these guying taking cues from the politcians??...

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Re: Mac OS X first to fall 2008-03-28
Robert Lemos

The contestants were allowed to connect directly to the laptops via a crossover network cable, which is the same access you would have if you were on the same network with the computer.

-R...

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Re: Mac OS X first to fall 2008-03-28
Anonymous

Apple sucks.. your a dumbass....

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Re: Mac OS X first to fall 2008-04-06
Anonymous

I agree. If the hacked laptop is the prize, go for the best laptop....

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Safari first to fall 2008-03-28
Credulous Dolt (1 replies)

Umm, a web browser is a web browser, not an operating system. If Firefox has a buffer overrun problem in the scripting engine Microsoft doesn't patch Vista. Or maybe they do. ...

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Re: Safari first to fall 2008-03-28
WRMartin

I believe they exploited the Safari flaw to gain access to the OS. The end goal of the contest is to be able to read a designated file on the machine. Doesn't matter if they exploited Safari, Filemaker, or your favorite crayon replacement....

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Vista laptop was also won 2008-03-29
Anonymous

looks like Vista was also pwned

http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/blog/2008/03/28/pwn-to-own-final-day-and-wrap-up...

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