Yeah, and that's exactly what this is: a contest based on desirability. People say that the MacBook Air is the most vulnerable, but I assume the following:
1) All of the hackers had roughly the same skill level 2) All three operating systems were exploitable
So what does that leave? Price and desirability. The macbook air is what, over $2000 with an extra $10000 on top of it? Of course that's going to be hacked first, it's the one that everyone would love to have for free (you all can argue that OS X sucks balls, but I think that the main complaint is price, and when that's out the window then suddenly it becomes very desirable).
hardware is hardware. I have three machines that came with XP all running Hardy perfectly. ..the OS has nothing to do with the 'desirability' except Apple's usual crap.
Plenty of people use GNU/Linux and more and more are joining them every day. It isn't perfect for every task (e.g., I still use either Mac OS X or Windows for Adobe Creative Suite), but the days of average users having to put up with difficult operating system and application installations and updates are gone. Advanced users who want fine control can still have it, but easy installers, systems such as the Asus Eee PC and Shuttle KPC that ship with GNU/Linux pre-installed, and user-friendly distributions such as Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and Foresight Linux are slowly bringing GNU/Linux to the masses.
Hah, that is hilarious because this story was also featured on Slashdot, and everyone in the comments was like "Who wants a windows or OSX machine anyway?" LOTS of people use linux, and even if they don't, it's like someone said, hardware is hardware. I'd be more inclined to think that linux IS actually harder to crack. -Taylor
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bk00 @ Mar 29th 2008 2:54PM
Ha ha. So essentially nobody bothered hacking the Linux machine because nobody wanted it.
Greg @ Mar 29th 2008 3:57PM
Plus, why bother hacking Linux? Who uses it? =p
John @ Mar 29th 2008 3:51PM
Yeah, and that's exactly what this is: a contest based on desirability. People say that the MacBook Air is the most vulnerable, but I assume the following:
1) All of the hackers had roughly the same skill level
2) All three operating systems were exploitable
So what does that leave? Price and desirability. The macbook air is what, over $2000 with an extra $10000 on top of it? Of course that's going to be hacked first, it's the one that everyone would love to have for free (you all can argue that OS X sucks balls, but I think that the main complaint is price, and when that's out the window then suddenly it becomes very desirable).
ethana2 @ Mar 29th 2008 4:02PM
hardware is hardware. I have three machines that came with XP all running Hardy perfectly.
..the OS has nothing to do with the 'desirability' except Apple's usual crap.
oGMo @ Mar 29th 2008 4:17PM
Wow, I'm not sure how you all manage to bump enough braincells together to get your posts typed before shorting out your keyboards with drool.
1. "I hacked all 3 OS's!" would be great bragging rights.
2. Hacking Windows or OSX isn't exactly noteworthy: we hear about it all the time. Hacking Linux would be moreso.
3. Once you have the hardware, you could install whatever you want on it.
4. Even if you didn't want the hardware, you could sell it.
There's a world outside of myspace-land, you know.
Brian Sexton @ Mar 29th 2008 4:48PM
Plenty of people use GNU/Linux and more and more are joining them every day. It isn't perfect for every task (e.g., I still use either Mac OS X or Windows for Adobe Creative Suite), but the days of average users having to put up with difficult operating system and application installations and updates are gone. Advanced users who want fine control can still have it, but easy installers, systems such as the Asus Eee PC and Shuttle KPC that ship with GNU/Linux pre-installed, and user-friendly distributions such as Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and Foresight Linux are slowly bringing GNU/Linux to the masses.
Hugh Newmark @ Mar 29th 2008 4:54PM
Linux ftw
Taylor @ Mar 29th 2008 6:52PM
Hah, that is hilarious because this story was also featured on Slashdot, and everyone in the comments was like "Who wants a windows or OSX machine anyway?"
LOTS of people use linux, and even if they don't, it's like someone said, hardware is hardware. I'd be more inclined to think that linux IS actually harder to crack.
-Taylor
superfresh @ Mar 29th 2008 10:06PM
Could someone clear something up for me? What does a picture of two gay guys have to do with this story?
UKNigel @ Mar 29th 2008 11:21PM
Those are the guys that brought the Macbook Air.
Jared @ Mar 30th 2008 12:20AM
The two guys pictured for the story remind me of this photo:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/foundphotoslj/2131815067/
Blackstar @ Mar 30th 2008 12:46AM
Linux. It's more secure, because even hackers don't like typing in terminal windows.
Wally @ Mar 30th 2008 1:21PM
Everyone seems to downplay the Linux.