Well the point was that ANY mac surfing to say the superbowl site would have been compromised, that was a big deal on windows machines, so i assume it would be a big deal on macs. This contest just proved someone could write a simple exploit for a mac in just a few hours the same as on a windows machine. Not sure why it changes the challange much at all...most pc's are compromised the exact same way.
Mike On 4/25/07, John DeCarlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Well, the Mac was always on the net throughout. Somehow, surfing to a dangerous web site changes the challenge a fair amount in my view. Whether you consider it a big or small change, it is still a change. Which leads one to surmise that they would have kept allowing more and more - like making the user download dangerous software - who doesn't do that? On 4/25/07, mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From what I gather the only rule change was that the user had to surf to a > website...show me a compromised pc that isn't on the net. > > Was their some other change? there -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
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