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phoneboy3

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Re: Vista and Mac lose over Linux in Hacking contest

You can try throw rocks at the facts which is the nature of hackers I suppose. I have to assume an event this big with this much money involved would have been well thought out and organized such that the playing field was as equal as possible.

If anything, the fact Vista had SP1 on it so soon after it's release gave it an unfair advantage over all the rest so the fact it made it to the end doesn't mean all that much to me.


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said by phoneboy3 :

You can try throw rocks at the facts which is the nature of hackers I suppose. I have to assume an event this big with this much money involved would have been well thought out and organized such that the playing field was as equal as possible.

If anything, the fact Vista had SP1 on it so soon after it's release gave it an unfair advantage over all the rest so the fact it made it to the end doesn't mean all that much to me.
Frankly, I don't care. None of the OSes showed any intrinsic mechanism to prevent these kinds of attacks. As far as I'm concerned, in the big picture they all lost for the reasons I provided. OS X and Linux for failing to sandbox the browser, IE7 for allowing things to so easily backdoor the sandbox.
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