All three of these OS's have known vulnerabilities to the vendor that aren't patched. All vendors have been in the past warned about holes and done nothing for some time. The standards were 'lowered' to the point of a normal computer take down....visiting a web page. They wanted to get the mac because it was a better piece of hardware then the other systems. And you must not have read the article...it states clearly all contestants sign a NDA until the contest sponsor can notify the vendor (read apple computer) about the vulnerability exposed. If linux and mac os x are harder to crack, then this shows they ain't much harder, and can be taken over the same way most windows machines are cracked.
Calm down, man...take a breather. I'm not anti mac...I'd have one if I could justify the cost, I have no problem at all with them...less probably then windows. Mike On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Michael Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You people and your anti-mac zealotry. The fact the MacBook Air was > "hacked" first is only because people at the event didn't bother hacking > the other systems. Other articles quote attendees saying so. They wanted > to get the Mac because that's where the cred and kudos lie. Any script > kiddy can jack up a Windows box. Linux is tougher, as well as the Mac. > In fact, they had to relax the rules of the contest after no one got > into any of the systems via network. Once he could direct organizers to > a website, Miller put into place things he had been working on for a > month or more -- things he could have told Apple about long ago but he > doesn't care about security. He wants hacker fame and free money and > equipment. Even if he believed Apple never plugs security holes, he > could have told them and still done this since lazy ol' Apple wouldn't > have plugged it; but he didn't, because he wanted his name in the news > and a free computer. > > These people are schmucks. If they really cared about us peons out here, > they would hand over their research to Apple, MicroSoft and the rest > rather than sitting back and laughing at us on the way to their banks. > > -- > Michael Lewis > Off Balance Productions > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.offbalance.com > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
