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I'm not surprised, this is what the third year in a row now? I hope Apple pays attention to the things Google is doing with Chrome. If I'm not mistaken, Lion will be shipping with WebKit2 and sand-boxing.

I've tried Chrome, but I just always go back strangely to Safari it just feels right at home.

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Five years in a row, as cansec west has run pwn2own for five years. OS X/Safari has also always been the first one to drop afaik, though this has at least as much to do with Apple kit being the most desirable as anything else.

It's not a race. The exploits are prepared far in advance, and whichever is hacked first is determined by the random order in which the challengers get to demonstrate their hacks.

Apple is also apparently sharing an developer version of Lion with security researchers[1], so hopefully it'll be more secure by next year.

[1] http://venturebeat.com/2011/02/26/apple-wises-up-by-sharing-...

Isn't the surprise rather that it is not the guy who knocked it over straight away three years running?

This is really embarrassing for OS X fans.

It's not surprising because he [Charlie Miller] was fourth or fifth in line.

Everyone who signs up for this has exploits already in the bag that they've been working on for weeks, it's not like it's hackers showing up and racing each other to discover exploits from scratch (which, incidentally, renders the whole "first to fall"/"browser X pwned in seconds" style of headline asinine)

Right, here was the article with the former, three time champ: http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/03/likely-pre-pwn2own...

If everyone breaks in on their first try, how do they determine who wins the prize money?

apparently apple does not spend time for securing their toys, they just polish.

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