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2008 Pwnie Award Nominees Announced

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the my-little-pwnie dept.

ruphus13 writes "The Pwnie Awards, an 'annual awards ceremony celebrating and making fun of the achievements and failures of security researchers and the wider security community' announced their 2008 nominees. From their site, 'The final list of nominees for the nine Pwnie Award categories is finally published. We've received some really good submissions and it was not an easy task to narrow them down to five nominees per category, but we hope that we've done a good job. The next step for the Pwnie Awards judges will gather in an undisclosed location prior to the award ceremony and vote on the winners.'"

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  1. SdDOS by jfroot · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Maybe they should give themselves an award as they appear to be pwned by the Slashdot effect.

  2. Site seems to be PWNED by kipin · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Did they nominate the slashdot effect as a security concern?

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  3. The newly-created 10th pwnie award goes to: by mad_psych0 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    http://pwnie-awards.org/ The /. effect wins the day once again.

  4. Re:Obligatory.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    OMG OWNIES???

  5. Fail but not for security. by freenix · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Uh, no and this part of the site is suspect for it's treatment of Vista and Debian security. UAC was designed to be annoying and offers little if any real security. Others have questioned Vista's security improvement over XP and other versions of Windows, but the comparison is kind of like winning a gold star at the Special Olympics. To M$, monopoly power and business models are more important than your data integrity, privacy, the internet or general welfare of users and the world. If M$ spent $100,000,000 on UAC and "security" it was squandered but we can be sure the majority of it was used for advertising and other business model security. It is amazing that the knowlegable people who put the site together could claim that Vista security is "teh best ever, but bad vendors ruinz it" and then compare Debian's late problem with OpenSSL. Debian's mistake is serious but it's not in the same league as M$'s continuing failures.