In the zero-day hacking contest at CanSecWest (below and below), the Windows Vista and Ubuntu machines survived the second day while the Mac was pwned in two minutes. For the third day, the challenge was made much easier, but the prize halved. The organisers said:
we are now opening up the scope beyond just default installed applications on those laptops; any popular 3rd party application (as deemed "popular" by the judges) can now be installed on the laptops for a prize of $5,000 upon a successful compromise.
The ability to add some hackable software did for the Vista notebook after 7 hours, "after it was installed with the latest version of Adobe Flash". The Ubuntu machine survived unhacked, which is impressive. No one managed a hack even with the incentive of $5,000 and a free Sony notebook.
