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MacBook Air First To Be Compromised In Hacking Contest
Multiple readers have written to let us know that the MacBook Air was the first laptop to fall in the CanSecWest hacking contest. The successful hijacking took place only two minutes into the second day of the competition, after the rules had been relaxed to allow the visiting of websites and opening of emails. The TippingPoint blog reveals that the vulnerability was located within Safari, but they won't release specific details until Apple has had a chance to correct the problem. The winner, Charlie Miller, gets to keep the laptop and $10,000. We covered the contest last year, and the results were similar.
All Apple products cause herpes.
Sorry it's worth the troll mod. Come on guys the Mac/Apple bashing articles are really getting silly. You might as well add it to the Slashdot logo, "We Love Microsoft and Hate All Things Apple." Honestly look at the numbers of articles pro and against each product line. Then check the postings. Say something pro Mac and you'll get shot down. Say something pointing out issues with PCs and you'll get Trolled. Yes go ahead and troll me but you're just killing the messenger and looking petty doing it.
Major OS Revisions, Apple vs. Microsoft:
March 2001___Mac OS X 10.0 (Cheetah) ----> Feb. 2000____ NT 5.0 (Windows 2000)
Sept 2001_____Mac OS X 10.1 (Puma) -------> Oct. 2001____ NT 5.1 (Windows XP)
August 2002___Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) ------> March 2003__ NT 5.2 (Server 2K, XP x64)
Oct. 2003____Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) ------> Aug. 2004____ NT 5.3?(SP2)
April 2005____Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) ---------> Nov. 2006____ NT 6.0 (Vista)
Oct. 2007 ____Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) ------> ???. 2010____ NT 7.0 (Windows 7)
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