Vista Laptop Was Won: Final Day In Hacking Contest

[Lennon]

http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/blog/2008/03/28/pwn-to-own-final-day-and-wrap-up

Vista Laptop was Won!: Congratulations to Shane Macaulay from Security Objectives - he has just won the Fujitsu U810 laptop running Vista Ultimate SP1 after it was installed with the latest version of Adobe Flash. Not only is he the official winner of the Fujitsu laptop, but also $5,000 from us. Shane received some assistance from his friends Derek Callaway (also from Security Objectives) and Alexander Sotirov. If you'll also remember, Shane Macaulay was Dino Dai Zovi's on-site team member at last year's PWN to OWN event in which they ultimately took the top prize.

The new Adobe Flash 0day vulnerability that Shane exploited has been acquired by the Zero Day Initiative, and has been responsibly disclosed to Adobe who is now working on the issue. Until Adobe releases a patch for this issue, neither we nor the contestants will be giving out any additional information about the vulnerability. You will be able to track the vulnerability on the Zero Day Initiative upcoming advisories page.
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MacBook Air first to fall in hacking contest - 2 minutes
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3074206


PWN to OWN - Mac OS vs Vista vs Ubuntu
http://www.robertdowney.com/2008/03/pwn-to-own-mac-os-vs-vista-vs-ubuntu.html

[enlightenment]

1. "was won"?

Vista laptop was won??

They wrote that and published it like that? Wow.

How about "the Vista laptop was won" or "a Vista laptop was won" or "so and so won the Vista laptop" or "The Vista laptop won the contest" or "The Vista laptop has won" . . .

I know, I know. I'm just a silly, old-fashioned pedant who is missing the point, damn it. Why get hung up on the words? I must be some sort of word nazi or something . . .

sigh.

[Geostudent]

3. It was won.

For hacking the Vista, the guy won the Vista laptop. It was won as a prize.

[enlightenment]

4. I understood that.

I didn't understand why they chose to leave off the indefinite article.

But thank you.

[dkofos]

2. what about the Linux system??