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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. Let me get this straight by CSMatt · · Score: -1, Troll

    If you can exploit a laptop in this contest you get to keep it? Why would you want a laptop that you know is insecure?

  2. Know this: no one uses linux on desktop, no softwa by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Know this: no one uses linux on desktop, no software to exploit. Good news if you want a server in a corner, but nothing new if you want to do real work with it. Second-rate software may appeal if it comes at no cost, but life is too short to waste and second-rate (at best) software wastes too much of it. And besides, why not just pick up the machine and run off with it. puh! Put that in your zero-day pipe and smoke it!

  3. Hierarchy of Desirable Laptops? by dvase · · Score: 0, Troll

    Order in which they were taken home:

    First (ie. Most Desirable): MacBook
    Second (ie. Somewhat Desirable): Vista
    Unclaimed (ie. I'd rather not): Ubuntu