Apple Mac Air Gets hacked in under 2 min!

/* Posted March 27th, 2008 at 4:13pm */
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This year, the PWN 2 OWN hacking competition at CanSecWest was over nearly as quickly as the second day started. Apparently Charlie Miller (iPhone hacking fame) visited a website which contained his exploit code, which then allowed him to seize control of the computer, as about 20 onlookers [read: unashamed nerds] cheered him on. Of note, contestants could only use software that came pre-loaded on the OS, so obviously it was Safari that fell victim here.

Mr. Miller was awarded $10,000 and the free Mac Air.

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