Linux unbeaten in hacking contest
Monday, March 31, 2008 by PPV
Three candidates for hacking. All are road warriors. All are patched. The targets are:
Then on the third day of the contest, Vista was finally cracked. Shane Macaulay with a little help from co-worker Derek Callaway, used a few hacking tricks to break into the Vista box.
Under contest rules, Macaulay and Miller aren't allowed to divulge specific details about their bugs until they are patched.
The contest ended with Linux running on the Sony Vaio remained undefeated.
- VAIO VGN-TZ37CN running Ubuntu 7.10
- Fujitsu U810 running Vista Ultimate SP1
- MacBook Air running OSX 10.5.2
Then on the third day of the contest, Vista was finally cracked. Shane Macaulay with a little help from co-worker Derek Callaway, used a few hacking tricks to break into the Vista box.
Under contest rules, Macaulay and Miller aren't allowed to divulge specific details about their bugs until they are patched.
The contest ended with Linux running on the Sony Vaio remained undefeated.
