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Mac Hack Contest Redux

Posted by samzenpus on from the what-breaks-first dept.

narramissic writes "Remember the controversial Mac hacking contest from last year's CanSecWest conference? No? Here's a refresher: Conference organizers challenged attendees to hack into a Macintosh laptop, with the successful hacker winning the computer and a cash prize. Winner Dino Dai Zovi found a QuickTime bug that allowed him to run unauthorized software on the Mac once the computer's browser was directed to a specially crafted Web page. Well, the contest is back again this year, but with a twist, says Dragos Ruiu, the principal organizer of CanSecWest: 'We're thinking of having a contest where we have Vista and OS X and Linux ... and see which one goes first.""

10 of 164 comments (clear)

  1. What will be the GNU/Linux prize? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The 386 it was installed on?

    1. Re:What will be the GNU/Linux prize? by Enoxice · · Score: 4, Funny

      The toaster it was installed on?

      Fixed.
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  2. Begs The question by realthing02 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Before the sea of "vista sucks" comments, I'm going to ask this question:

    When vista inevitably goes first, who is going to want it? I assume it must be a good enough computer to actually run vista, so lets all take guesses at the OS loaded onto it after it's "pwnd".

  3. Wrong! by EmbeddedJanitor · · Score: 4, Funny

    The Vista computer won't get hacked because nobody will want to take it home!

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  4. Re:Prediction by Nerdfest · · Score: 4, Funny

    The outcome would be dependent on whether or not the Vista machine has already booted up. If not, attacking the other 2 gives you a decent head-start.

  5. Re:Prediction by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 5, Funny

    There is already a trojan available for vista, however noone is infected because its not finished copying over the network yet.

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  6. TFA doesn't say by Cajun+Hell · · Score: 5, Funny

    Who is operating each machine? I need their email addresses. I want to send them some programs, and my "hack" is that the programs will come with instructions to the operator: please execute this attachment.

    My understanding is that for Windows, I just need to have the filename end with .exe. For MacOS, I need it to end with .dmg. For Linux, I need to train the user how to use chmod.

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  7. Re:*BSD! by CapsaicinBoy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ummm. OSX is just NeXTstep v5 (or 6 by now?), and NeXTstep is a flavor of BSD.

    Please turn in your geek card on the way out.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Unix_history.en.svg

  8. Re:Prediction by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sorry that's my fault, let me turn my sound off.

  9. Re:how about a taste test by calebt3 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Click the 'x' in the top corner of the login screen. Oh wait...