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Pinkie Pie Earns $60K At Pwn2Own With Three Chromium 0-Day Exploits
Tackhead writes "Hot on the hooves of Sergey Glazunov's hack 5-minutes into Pwn2Own, an image of an axe-wielding pink pony was the mark of success for a hacker with the handle of Pinkie Pie. Pinkie Pie subtly tweaked Chromium's sandbox design by chaining together three zero-day vulnerabilities, thereby widening his appeal to $60K in prize money, another shot at a job opportunity at the Googleplex, and instantly making Google's $1M Pwnium contest about 20% cooler. (Let the record show that Slashdot was six years ahead of this particular curve, and that April Fool's Day is less than a month away.)"
Cupcakes for ALL!
You can't fix stupid. The pony meme will continue until the next braindead fad thing grabs their attention.
Wasn't the word "pwn" derived from "own" to begin with? That would make "Pwn2own" seem to be a bit redundant, i.e. that is to say somewhat unnecesarily superfluous and verbose; lacking in the concise.