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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?




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