Matt <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> With Vista breached, Linux unbeaten in hacking contest
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | The MacBook Air went first; a tiny Fujitsu laptop running Vista was hacked on
>> | the last day of the contest; but it was Linux, running on a Sony Vaio, that
>> | remained undefeated as conference organizers ended a three-way computer
>> | hacking challenge Friday at the CanSecWest conference.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2008/032908-with-vista-breached-linux-unbeaten.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news
>>
>> Great news and good publicity.
>
>
> The contest was held at a security conference that was not specific to
> Linux. A $20,000 prize was offered.
>
> http://cansecwest.com/index.html
> (((((
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Fantastic.
Now, let's wait for the shilcosystem to claim that Linux held out
because nobody knows anything about it, whereas Vista was hacked because
there are millions upon millions of copies of it out there, in use, all
the time...
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