Vincent Arnold

March 28, 2008 (Computerworld) The security researcher who walked away with $10,000 yesterday by hacking a MacBook Air in less than two minutes said he chose to attack Apple Inc.’s operating system for one simple reason.

“It was the easiest one of the three,” said Charlie Miller, a principal analyst with Independent Security Evaluators (ISE), a Baltimore-based security consultancy. “We wanted to spend as little time as possible coming up with an exploit, so we picked Mac OS X.”

Source: Computerworld

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