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Pwn2own doesn't work the way you think it does. The participants use prepared exploits. You can't infer anything about the relative security of different systems that both get exploited there.


Zero day hackers and the malicious Chinese hacker spies also use prepared exploits, so you can infer something about the relative easiness of finding exploitable holes.


What do you think you can infer?


Pwn2own may use prepared exploits, but researchers tend to go for the easy low hanging fruit, so there is a lot to infer from who falls on the first day etc.

Read this from the horse's mouth and see what you can infer from it. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/questions-for-pwn2own-hac...


I thought the Mac was exploited first because a Mac is more valuable than most Wintel machines, thus a better material prize.


You really think the hackers who spend hours of meticulous planning in preparing the hacks do it for the material prize? Insightful...




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