Actually during the segment when he cracked the Air, the only thing in scope was the default installation.

Some sources are actually reporting the browsers and mail clients were added on the second day. Then the third day was plugin frameworks and instant messengers.

It’s quite a realistic hack too, nothing more than browsing to a website and he was able to take control of the machine.

The next day (today) was when they were adding the other applications like Firefox, so we haven’t heard the results of that hacking session yet, or whether they’ll be able to take control of Vista or Linux.

I’m curious if it actually only took two minutes to hack it or if competitors are allowed to write code prior to their turn at each computer to help them on their quest. I’d also like to know how many of them are aware of vulnerabilities when they show up at the competition and it’s just a matter of who can type the fastest.

I was wondering the same thing, but I don’t think they would be able to stop any extra work from happening outside of the competition. It’s just a matter of how much time is it worth trying to find vulnerabilities just to win $10,000. I guess it may not take that long for some of those people.

So probably OS X 10.6 will be delayed now. They’ll have to learn to write secure code.

Ouch… I think you got pleasure driving that dagger in.