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U of Wisconsin's Mac OS X Security Challenge
digitalsurgeon writes "The University of Wisconsin [ed: Go Badgers] has launched a Mac OS X Security challenge, in response to a 'woefully misleading ZDnet article'. From the site: 'The challenge is as follows: simply alter the web page on this machine, test.doit.wisc.edu. The machine is a Mac mini (PowerPC) running Mac OS X 10.4.5 with Security Update 2006-001, has two local accounts, and has ssh and http open - a lot more than most Mac OS X machines will ever have open.' Are you up to the task? Can you prove ZDNet wrong, or can you show that Mac OS X can really be hacked in less then 30 minutes? More information about the challenge is at http://test.doit.wisc.edu/ The challenge ends Fri 10 March 2006 10:00 AM CST." Update: 03/07 14:32 GMT by Z : Commentary on the contest and original claim is available at VNUNet
...and here, classs, we have another example where somebody is desperate to make a comment, and actually has nothing to so, while being pompous and arrogant at the same time as trying to look clever.
While one person makes a analogy which is not perfect, another person attacks them for it.
The two things are different, very different. Quit trying to post useless comments. Some comments on home secutiry/computer security are better than others (this wasn't one of them).
You're point is? A privilage escalation test IS A HACKING TEST. DUH!!!!!!