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Linuxense Break-in Challenge Over

Posted by timothy on from the aw-they-werent dept.

hot_Karls_bad_cavern writes "As previously mentioned on Slashdot, the Linuxense Break-In Challenge has ended and some results posted, including a torrent link to the packet capture dump. The great Linux guru winner: no one. After the 96 hours, the machine was still safe and sound. Distro on the target machine: Adamantix."

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  1. In this case i believe by A+beautiful+mind · · Score: 4, Interesting

    the timeframe was too short to do anything high profile. In other words, the distro was more secure than it could be hacked in 96 hours. However, with servers online years, you have a much better situation from the attacker's viewpoint, even if your box is fully patched.

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  2. Re:Another contest ... by takeya · · Score: 1, Interesting

    why don't we do this with windows and see how it goes? assuming adamantix is just secure, and wasn't touched, i wonder how an untouched install of XP Pro SP2 would handle.

    It would certainly speak volumes of security.