[dundee] Slashdot | Last year's CanSecWest Winner Repeats on Vista, Ubuntu Wins

[Tim Spencer]

to reference "the easiest (partly because of it market share [buffer
overflow] " here i am referencing the amount of 3rd party products which are
vulnerable to buffer overflows thereby i am saying because ms is so popular
there are more software out for it and thereby its more probable that one is
programmed badly thereby hacking ms is easier.

On 31/03/2008, Gary Short <gary at garyshort.org> wrote:
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> Vista, Ubuntu Wins
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> "I just wanted to add that some attraction to hacking MS software is not
> just because of its market share but also because its the easiest"
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> And yet it wasn't the first to be hacked in the competition, it was Apple,
> and the Vista machine was only hacked after a third party product was
> added
> to it.
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> Cheers,
> Gary
> http://www.garyshort.org
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