Comments on: Pwn2Own – and the Macbook Air Falls http://ambiguiccoherence.wordpress.com/2008/04/02/pwn2own-and-the-macbook-air-falls/ Mon, 04 May 2009 03:56:51 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: robinton http://ambiguiccoherence.wordpress.com/2008/04/02/pwn2own-and-the-macbook-air-falls/#comment-45 robinton Thu, 03 Apr 2008 23:39:09 +0000 http://ambiguiccoherence.wordpress.com/?p=63#comment-45 From the ZDnet blogs and other places, apparently the Vista machine was taken down by a flaw in Flash; theoretically the Linux box could have been taken down with the same thing, but the rules prohibited re-using an exploit. From the ZDnet blogs and other places, apparently the Vista machine was taken down by a flaw in Flash; theoretically the Linux box could have been taken down with the same thing, but the rules prohibited re-using an exploit.

]]> By: ambiguiccoherence http://ambiguiccoherence.wordpress.com/2008/04/02/pwn2own-and-the-macbook-air-falls/#comment-44 ambiguiccoherence Thu, 03 Apr 2008 01:04:35 +0000 http://ambiguiccoherence.wordpress.com/?p=63#comment-44 I'm going to further add a quote from David Maynor's blog: I have a different theory: it was the easiest. With Vista and Linux correctly implementing technologies Apple botched like ASLR it is the naturally easiest target. If you want an analogy, it is kind of like the slow Antelope that has been separated from the herd by predators. I’m going to further add a quote from David Maynor’s blog:

I have a different theory: it was the easiest. With Vista and Linux correctly implementing technologies Apple botched like ASLR it is the naturally easiest target. If you want an analogy, it is kind of like the slow Antelope that has been separated from the herd by predators.

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