Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 20th Mar 2009 13:51 UTC, submitted by google_ninja
Privacy, Security, Encryption Fresh from winning the PWN2OWN contest yesterday, Charlie Miller has been interviewed by ZDNet. He talks about how Mac OS X is a very simple operating system to exploit due to the lack of any form of anti-exploit features. He also explains that the underlying operating system is much more important in creating a successful exploit than the bowser, why Chrome is so hard to hack, and many other things.
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RE[6]: Comment by sadyc
by Bounty on Fri 20th Mar 2009 18:18 UTC in reply to "RE[5]: Comment by sadyc"
Bounty
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2006-09-18

Right, he held on the bug until the price was worth it. I'll rephrase my comment: "I know a way into your machine and I will sell it for the right price". Still doesn't make it the right approach.


The right price would have been to hackers for 10K a year ago. He waited until a white hat would pay him.

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