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Chrome Hacked In 5 Minutes At Pwn2Own
Skuto writes "After offering a total prize fund of up to $1M for a successful Chrome hack, it seems Google got what it wanted (or not!). No more than 5 minutes into the Pwn2Own cracking contest team Vupen exploited 2 Chrome bugs to demonstrate a total break of Google's browser. They will win at least 60k USD out of Google's prize fund, as well as taking a strong option on winning the overall Pwn2Own prize. It also illustrates that Chrome's much lauded sandboxing is not a silver bullet for browser security."
That's because when other browsers are cracked first it shows they are insecure, while when it's Chrome it is only an experimental error.
You mean they weren't getting BJ's as they hacked Chrome? What kind of contest is this anyway?
If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people
It's not called pwn2groan!
Mod me down, my New Earth Global Warmingist friends!
That's $12 million/hour, more than Larry and Sergey combined :-)
Have you got your LWN subscription yet?
Thanks for linking to a complete useless, pointless and content-free Twitter post.
You've clearly never read a press release from a software company
Pain is merely failure leaving the body
There is not and never has been a "silver bullet" for anything much less security. Stop acting surprised.
Not true that there are no silver bullets for anything. There are silver bullets for killing werewolves.
Well, I'm sure that your imagination is insanely powerful.
"Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it." - Charlie Br
There is not and never has been a "silver bullet" for anything much less security.
Except, of course, for an actual bullet made of silver.
Are you mad man? Didn't you hear!!??? It exposes bugs!
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
Ah, so you're the guy this is about. Stop whining and get back to your luxuries while the rest of us make a tiny fraction of your salary.
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I use a Mac, but the air of condescension surrounding my computer makes malware slink off and attack someone else's computer.
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