Why Legendary Boxing Manager Don King Should Promote Apple
Charlie Miller, who famously hacked an Apple Mac in less than two minutes last year, recently exploited a fully patched Apple Mac in less than 10 seconds at this year's PWN2OWN contest.
Researcher cracks Mac in 10 seconds at PWN2OWN, wins $5K
To quote:
"I can't talk about the details of the vulnerability, but it was a Mac, fully patched, with Safari, fully patched," said Miller Wednesday not long after he had won the prize. "It probably took 5 or 10 seconds." He confirmed that he had researched and written the exploit before he arrived at the challenge...
"It was great," said Miller when asked how it felt to successfully defend his title. "But I was really nervous for some reason this time. Maybe it was because there were more people around. Lucky [the exploit] was idiot-proof, because if I had had to think about it, I don't know if I'd had anything."
An idiot-proof knock out in 10 seconds. Ouch. That does not bode well for current or furture Apple users. But this reminds me of something quite similar...now what was it? Ah yes.
Apple posted a record net quarterly profit in Q1 2009 of $1.61 billion. Only professional boxers get paid such ridiculous sums of money to end up on the mat within 10 seconds of the first round. Don King should strongly consider managing Apple at the next PWN2OWN contest.
A note to readers: Would any reader out there consider creating an image of Don King's famous hair atop an Apple logo? I will happily post it here.
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