[Cialug] Ubuntu wins out over OSX and Vista :)

[Matthew Nuzum]

This was a contest that was held where if you hack the laptop you get
to keep it. Also there is a cash prize of $20,000 for a pre-login
hack, $10,000 for a hack that involves the user logging in and using a
pre-installed application such as a web browser (this is how the Air
was claimed) or IM program and finally a $5,000 hack for vulnerability
exposed through the use of popular third party software (the XP
machine was claimed this way through the use of Adobe Flash Plugin).

 On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 11:09 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
 > The CanSecWest[0] security conference's pwn2own[1] contest just wrapped
 >  up.  Security professionals were invited to attempt to, over the network,
 >  break into laptops running stock, fully patched, installs of OSX, Vista,
 >  and Ubuntu 7.10.  To quote[2] the contest officials:
 >
 >  "So at the end of the last day of the contest, only the Sony VAIO laptop
 >  running Ubuntu was left standing."
 >
 >  This is awesome -- we've got more software installed by default, with all
 >  of it available for people to examine, and yet both the closed systems
 >  got owned instead.
 >
 >  Nice job, everyone.  Free software for the win.  :)
 >
 >  -Kees
 >
 >  [0] http://cansecwest.com/
 >  [1] http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/blog/2008/03/19/cansecwest-pwn-to-own-2008
 >  [2] http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/blog/2008/03/28/pwn-to-own-final-day-and-wrap-up
 >
 >  --
 >  Kees Cook
 >  Ubuntu Security Team


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