Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 3rd Apr 2008 19:59 UTC, submitted by daedalus8
People shouldn't read anything into the fact that of the three laptops set up for last week's 'PWN to OWN' hack challenge, the only one left standing was running Linux, said the security expert who oversaw the contest. "There was just no interest in Ubuntu," said Terri Forslof, manager of security response at 3Com Corp.'s TippingPoint subsidiary, which put up the cash prizes awarded at the contest last week at CanSecWest. "A contest such as this is not a measure of relative security between operating systems. It's not an accurate barometer."
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No one wouldn't, because it is against the rules:
http://cansecwest.com/post/2008-03-20.21:33:00.CanSecWest_PWN2OWN_2...
RE[3]: Comment by eekee - "known" clause
by jabbotts on Fri 4th Apr 2008 12:36
in reply to "RE[2]: Comment by eekee"
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I think using the same exploit would be blocked by the "known" clause. You've already popped a machine through Flash demonstraiting the exploit and it is the same exploit that would be used across the platforms. You would have to find a different exploit to pop the second machine.
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2006-03-15
"Ten thousand, and the idea that people would pass up $10k just because they couldn't be bothered to try is nuts!"
Maybe people can only enter one competition and the full details of the exploit are not publicized until after the competition. What I got from the article was that there were tons of talented people who were working on breaking Windows and MacOS while only a few people entered to hack Ubuntu. After all, it seems that it was a Flash exploit that is already confirmed to work on Linux that took Windows down.