The Angry Drunk

So, CanSecWest ran another one of their “crack shit and we give you prizes” con­tests and sur­prise, sur­prise, the MacBook got cracked.

Ok, before we get this ball rolling let me make some­thing clear. I’m not a secu­rity expert. I’m not look­ing at this as a secu­rity expert. I’ll leave that to peo­ple much smarter than me. So, hav­ing said that, any­one who attempts to ques­tion my secu­rity exper­tise in way of rebut­tal will be shot.

I hate these sort of com­pe­ti­tions, because they are just the­ater. And, while one could make the argu­ment that com­pe­ti­tions like this help spread aware­ness about com­puter secu­rity, I’d argue that they don’t. Here’s why.

The prob­lem with com­pe­ti­tions like this is that the tech media, and the hordes of mouth breath­ing com­menters / forum retards never seem to take away the impor­tant mes­sage. Instead we usu­ally get breath­less hyper­bole (note, I’m specif­i­cally not accus­ing Macworld of that. I linked to them because they were the first story about this that I had open).

Whenever one of these sto­ries breaks, you can be assured that the bulk of the responses will gen­er­ally fall into one of two buckets.

The MacMacs will inevitably come

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