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Re: Vista and Mac lose over Linux in Hacking contest said by Computerworlduk :
It was lack of interest in Linux rather than the operating system's inherent security that left an Ubuntu laptop unbreached in a hacking contest, said the security expert who oversaw the contest.
"There was just no interest in Ubuntu," said Terri Forslof, manager of security response for 3Com's TippingPoint, 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."
Just because the laptop - a Sony running the Ubuntu 7.10 distribution of Linux - had been untouched doesn't mean that the operating system is any more secure than either Mac OS X or Windows Vista, both which fell to attacks.
"It was actually a lack of interest" on the part of the PWN To OWN contestants, Forslof said. "Shane's [Macaulay] exploit would have worked on Linux. He could have knocked it over. But [the contestants] get a lot more mileage out of attacks on the Mac or Windows," she continued.
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