[for-q-clinton]

Huh? This was in response to another discussion with Anti-Republicrat about this very contest. I was saying everyone knew OS X would be the first to fall as the exploits have been known for a while yet Apple wasn’t able to identify and fix them.

So I found this and found it pertinent to the discussions and worthy of posts. Especially when I had this article to follow it http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2557086/posts?page=42

But I’m not sure how redmond being desparate makes OSX not the first one hacked for the past 3 years in Pawn2Own. Plus it was even said that it would be the easiest to hack BEFORE the contest took place.

[Richard Kimball]

It’s pwn2own, not pawn2own.

[Swordmaker]

I was saying everyone knew OS X would be the first to fall as the exploits have been known for a while yet Apple wasn’t able to identify and fix them. . . Plus it was even said that it would be the easiest to hack BEFORE the contest took place.

Everyone DID NOT KNOW that OSX would be the first to fall... that was a claim by a few... and it was being claimed because Charlie Miller ALREADY had his hack prepared! He had it way before the contest and DID NOT REPORT IT. This is considered unethical in the computer security community. He found the vulnerability months before the contest and sat on it... waiting for the contest, knowing it was obscure and would win the contest for him... and bragged about it before the contest.