Posted on 03/19/2009 6:24:11 PM PDT by Swordmaker
Chrome managed to get through the day though....
It's security by obscurity...
That would be true if they hadn’t even included it in the competition.
Hacks were attempted but were unsuccessful.
That’s not the way hacking works. A hacker first builds a toolset, or uses tools built by someone else. You don’t just sit down at the keyboard and begin hacking. It would be a totally false sense of security if your browswer or OS was safe from hackers without tools. In the real world the threats are going to come from hackers with a large array of self-built and shared hacking tools.
It's not about the toolset, which any hacker can be assumed to have. It's about spending months using that toolset to find a vulnerability, crafting a specific exploit for that vulnerability, and keeping it all secret until the competition so you can have the cash and hardware instead of being ethical and notifying the vendor when you first discovered the vulnerability.
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