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Last Year's CanSecWest Winner Repeats on Vista, Ubuntu Wins

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the tough-nut-to-crack dept.

DimitryGH followed up on the earlier news that the MacBook Air lost CanSecWest by noting that "Last year's winner of the CanSecWest hacking contest has won the Vista laptop in this year's competition. According to the sponsor TippingPoint's blog, Shane Macaulay used a new 0day exploit against Adobe Flash in order to secure his win. At the end of the day, the only laptop (of OS X, Vista, and Ubuntu) that remained unharmed was the one running Ubuntu. How's that for fueling religious platform wars?"

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  1. Popcorn anyone? by cizoozic · · Score: 5, Funny

    How's that for fueling religious platform wars? Should do quite nicely. Check back on this thread in a few hours - I'll bring the beers!
    1. Re:Popcorn anyone? by tzot · · Score: 5, Funny

      (What kind of beer?) And if you say a light North American lager [snip]
      He said he'd bring the beers, not that he would make love in a canoe ;)
      --
      I speak England very best
  2. Re:Let me get this straight by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    For some time now OS of personal computers does not reside in ROM and can be changed to a different one with ease. The miracles of technology!

  3. Re:It is becoming more clear every day by ketilwaa · · Score: 5, Funny

    Are you comparing GNU/Linux to Kia? Kia?!? KIA?!? If I see you on the road I'll be slamming into you with my Ubuntu Yugo, so watch out!

  4. Re:Newsworthy? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    In general Windows users tend to have lots of 3rd party apps that are closed source and of dubious quality. That isn't the case on Linux. Yeah, they're open source and of dubious quality.