Last Year's CanSecWest Winner Repeats on Vista, Ubuntu Wins

DimitryGH followed up on the earlier news that the MacBook Air lost CanSecWest by noting that "Last year's winner of the CanSecWest hacking contest has won the Vista laptop in this year's competition. According to the sponsor TippingPoint's blog, Shane Macaulay used a new 0day exploit against Adobe Flash in order to secure his win. At the end of the day, the only laptop (of OS X, Vista, and Ubuntu) that remained unharmed was the one running Ubuntu. How's that for fueling religious platform wars?"

Popcorn anyone?

[cizoozic]

How's that for fueling religious platform wars?

Should do quite nicely. Check back on this thread in a few hours - I'll bring the beers!

Hey!

[spectrokid]

it was Adobes fault, not Microsoft! Let's all switch to Silverlight and we will be OK!!!!

Re:Popcorn anyone?

[garett_spencley]

"Should do quite nicely. Check back on this thread in a few hours - I'll bring the beers!"

What kind ?

And if you say a light North American lager I'm going to smite you in the name of the almighty beer lord!

I think it is most fitting...

[Provocateur]

...that we christen the unharmed laptop 'Cowboy Neal'

Re:Let me get this straight

[Anonymous Coward]

For some time now OS of personal computers does not reside in ROM and can be changed to a different one with ease. The miracles of technology!

Re:Let me get this straight

[spectrokid]

If you can exploit a laptop in this contest you get to keep it? Why would you want a laptop that you know is insecure?

Euuuuh.... to install Linux on it?

Re:Popcorn anyone?

[tzot]

(What kind of beer?) And if you say a light North American lager [snip]

He said he'd bring the beers, not that he would make love in a canoe ;)

Re:It is becoming more clear every day

[ketilwaa]

Are you comparing GNU/Linux to Kia? Kia?!? KIA?!? If I see you on the road I'll be slamming into you with my Ubuntu Yugo, so watch out!

Re:Know this: no one uses linux on desktop, no sof

[Zedekiah]

No-one? I hope you realise that you've just caused me an existential crisis!

Re:General Linux

[Anonymous Coward]

Man I sure hope that's a typo.

No, it's a typi.

Re:Newsworthy?

[Anonymous Coward]

In general Windows users tend to have lots of 3rd party apps that are closed source and of dubious quality. That isn't the case on Linux.

Yeah, they're open source and of dubious quality.

Re:Know this: no one uses linux on desktop, no sof

[Oktober Sunset]

Well, anyway, sorry to have fed the troll.

As long as you don't feed the squirrels.

Re:Popcorn anyone?

[phantomfive]

There's no religious war here. Ubuntu is clearly the best.

Re:Popcorn anyone?

[Almahtar]

No. You make the pop. That is your role, and you will accept it.

Re:Popcorn anyone?

[Cheerio Boy]

Proof that we're getting too old for Slashdot. Get these n00bs off my lawn!

You must be new here.

Re:Popcorn anyone?

[dpilot]

Clearly the way to rein in Flash is with Silverlight, then.

This thread IS for religious wars, isn't it?

Re:Newsworthy?

[Daimanta]

Haven't you heard, there is a new tool for scriptkiddies. It is called sub8 and it's got a "get 0days" mode. I'm running it all day. I am now targeting 127.0.0.1 and I think it is going to be done any min[CARRIER LOST]

The ONLY reason ubuntu won

[goombah99]

I note that Windows and Mac can run firefox too. The ONLY reason that ubuntu won is because it can't run Safari, or IE.

My kid's pretend Leap-frog computer also can't run a browser or even connect to the internet. Clearly it is much safer than ubuntu.