Story: Apple's Leopard lasts '30 seconds' in hack contest
Security specialists, criminals, military, & backdoors
From my point of view, I’d expect that pretty much ANY of the major OS’s would be reasonably secure, with a patching effort being undertaken once vulnerabilities are made aware.
This would lead me to believe that the main people involved in contests of this nature would be those security specialists who do this for a living, and that are actually GOOD at what they do.
What bothers me more, however, is the fact that there may be code out there being exploited which is kept under close purview of either criminals, or military efforts, and has not yet been brought to the attention of the vendor.
The military aspect SHOULD be ok, given that they are generally working for us, but if any employee of the military should get a hold of a disk that contains that material, and then decides to leave the military, then this would be a disaster.
On another front, I’d be most curious to know what the truth is regarding backdoors into the OS’s. Do they really exist, and if so, who really knows about them, and can they be trusted.
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