Posted on 03/25/2010 10:42:55 AM PDT by ShadowAce
In China, every day is Pwn2Own Hacker Contest Day.
Hackers should be shot. That’s a “fire wall” I’d support.
Those issues have always been there, it's just that almost no one cared.
Sobering stuff.
If you have information of value to someone, they will probably be able to get it if they try hard enough.
Say wha????...
You'll smoke a turd in hell for that buddy....!!!!
Yes but I like this contest. This is designed to help the end user have a better product.
Exactly. The more this is published, and the more products involved, the better we all are.
Isn’t computer hacking a criminal activity? I don’t recall seeing the results for the latest chop shop contest; safe cracking; most efficient meth lab contest; etc. Just saying.
I also use Opera. Firefox has better features, but Opera is more secure and stable.
The practice leading up to the contest is what worries me.
Hacking in and of itself isn’t illegal, it’s hacking into computers that you don’t have permission to access and are not yours is the illegal part.
Walking on your own property isn’t trespassing, walking on some one’s property without permission is.
WHY WERE THESE INDIVIDUALS NOT ALL ARRESTED? A convention of criminals, and no one paid attention? Oh, I see; it’s Canada. Thanks, Hosers!
Take a deep breath...
Many of those “hackers” work for global security firms, it’s their job to find exploits.
And as for the students, it’s basically the same thing, they work to find and expose exploits to force the company that made the software to tighten it’s security.
It’s people like them that help to find and fix security holes, they’re referred to as “White Hat Hackers”, they’re the good guys.
Because they didn’t launch any attacks on other people’s systems. They developed the exploits on their own time and their own dime, and merely showcased them at this event in an effort to win a prize.
Charlie Miller, who attacks OS X for his prize money, used to be an NSA employee.
There’s nothing illegal about hacking your own computer, or a computer offered up openly for hacking. They’re only breaking the law if they hack a computer against the owner’s wishes. You can bust the software on your own machine all you want.
“Computer hacking” is criminal only when you attack other people’s systems with the exploit.
Developing an exploit on your own systems is not a criminal activity, and if it were, then a whole lot of software developers would end up being shuffled off to jail, because the sort of testing these people engage in is routinely used by software developers who want to make a robust product.
Those software developers wishing to make a robust product, unfortunately, don’t work for major software or hardware vendors, because middle management can’t see the profit margin in closing vulnerabilities unless the vulnerability has been exploited “in the wild.”
Deep breath taken- thanks!
8^)
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