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Apple Macbook hacked at a security event.  I had read about this contest, they were giving away a couple of MacBooks if you could hack one.  They called it amusingly “PWN to Own.”  PWN being a hacker word that means to own or to take control of something (anything really).  

It took the security about 9 hours to write an exploit for a zero day security vulnerability.  I’m not as impressed as one might think I should be.  This vulnerability is probably already patched and pushed out to pretty much all macs by now.  The truth is the vulnerability was probably only available a short time before it was plugged.  This is in sharp contrast to Windows where we have vulnerabilities go unpatched for months at a time.

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