Google offers $3.14159 MILLION in prizes for hacking Chrome OS Google has announced the target for its third Pwnium hacking contest, to be held at this year's CanSecWest security conference, with $3.14159m in prize money for the researchers who can successfully crack its Chrome OS operating system. And yes, that figure is derived from the first six digits of π. The contest, to be held on …
I assume it uses Chrome?
Therefore all you need to 'crack it' is to write a bit of stuff that turns off the 'install by default' when it tries to come in as a payload on the back of some other cruftware without the user having to uncheck the checkbox.
Otherwise..
I don't know, some sort of script or bat file that tells the hosts file not to download the wart if it tries and redirects the download to a local .txt file containing 'You have not downloaded Chrome'. Rather than ending up with 108MB of spunk smeared on your hard drive and a Chrome Icon on the desktop that some idiot is going to go and click then go 'Muh-Huh' when it asks if you want it to be the default browser and loads up multiple copies of the Yahoo!/Ask/ETC/ETC toolbars.
Yes.. Yes.. I know 'you' do not suffer from such problems but your Mum/Granddad/GeneralPubic does.
http://en.tengrinews.kz/finance/Google-2012-revenue-hits-50-billion-profits-up--16236/
$Pi Million when they made $50 billion last year. What's the problem? Can't they attract the staff these days?
People know Windows, it does get hacked along with OSX every year in a competition.
Incidentally it is always the browser that they tend to exploit to get access. Given ChromeOS is big on the browser I can imagine it will get hacked easily once people get familiar with it (most people think it is a big waste of time and so don't even look at it).
Wow - it's so easy.
Heck, the only reason you're not entering is, I assume, that the $110, 000 just isn't enough to warrant the effort of getting out of bed?
However, you can get the prize several times so you could make multi-variants of the 'crack' and romp home. Let us know how it goes...
Not to mention Linux and any open source libraries as well, if a vulnerability is out in the open and not patched you can exploit it.
The original PSP was hacked using some libpng exploit.
If more people used Linux on the desktop there would be loads more exploits, but given so few people do use it then it's obvious it isn't worth spending time and money trying to create malware due to lack of return on investment.
PR gibberish:
".... was the most secure on the market, saying the mix of hardware and software modules on the machines makes a lot of current attack techniques invalid."
English:
".... was the most secure on the market, saying having fuck all software on the machines makes a lot of current attack techniques invalid...."
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