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Want $10,000? Hate the "I have a Mac" anything?

April 20, 2007 by in Apple,Tech with 3 Comments

Want $10,000 cash? Hack a Mac and win $10,0000. Go ahead, try it. Make all your Mac toting "our OS is soo secure" to whimper and cry on their knees.

TippingPoint, which runs the Zero Day Initiative bug bounty program, is offering to pay $10,000 to the hacker who commandeers one of two MacBooks. The target computers are connected to a wireless access point and fully patched, including the update for 25 vulnerabilities that Apple released on Thursday.

Originally a successful hack would be rewarded with the MacBook. There had been some rumblings among event attendees that the reward was not big enough to draw interest. To qualify for the $10,000 a successful attack has to be carried out with a new, yet-to-be-patched vulnerability, a TippingPoint representative at CanSecWest said.

For more information on the exploit contest, check this article here.


  • mdmunoz

    Sorta like that one time that one guy who made a video of taking over a Macbook but he could never actually prove it?

    Or that time they did a month of Apple bugs and had to resort to exploits in VLC Player and other multiplatform apps to cover the shame of their failure?

    These contests are always a bit hilarious.

  • chad

    my favorite one was back a couple years ago and it was a Linux box talking about why linux based servers are better than windows based servers… windows made a big to do about it and put up a site making similar statements against Linux about windows. Totting their uptime and availability after a little sniffing some hackers found that the machine running the site was indeed a linux/apache box… M$ was a laughing stock of the community for a good bit after that little mixup.

  • mdmunoz

    Guess what happened this time?

    “CanSecWest organizers relaxed the rules Friday after nobody at the event had breached either of the Macs on the previous day.”

    –Cnet

    I bet this comes out in the press as “Macs as vulnerable as PCs.” It never changes.

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