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2010

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1353728/Google-offers-20-000-laptop-person-hack-Chrome-browser.html

Google offers £12,500 and a laptop to the first person to hack its Chrome browser

It's a move that reeks of extreme confidence, bordering on the reckless.
Google is so certain its Chrome browser is unhackable it has promised to award £12,500 ($20,000) and a notebook to the first person who proves them wrong.
The company laid down the gauntlet ahead of the fifth annual Pwn2Own hacking competition next month.

John_Gray

If it's in the Daily Mail it must be right!

KiwiCrazy

1) I would not trust the Daily Mail

2) NOTHING is UNCRACKABLE!!!!

free4440273

http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/vulnerabilities/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=229201164&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_All

^another source //

2010

John_Gray wrote: »

If it's in the Daily Mail it must be right!

Not only the mail but about another million places:

http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&xhr=t&q=Google+offers+%C2%A312,500&cp=22&pf=p&sclient=psy&site=&source=hp&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=Google+offers+%C2%A312,500+&pbx=1&fp=f9c7276adfd1e0a7

Hammyman

2010 wrote: »

Google is so certain its Chrome browser is unhackable it has promised to award £12,500 ($20,000) and a notebook to the first person who proves them wrong.
The company laid down the gauntlet ahead of the fifth annual Pwn2Own hacking competition next month.

They only just paid out $3500 a few weeks ago to someone.

It will be p0wned in under an hour at that contest.

2010

Hammyman wrote: »

They only just paid out $3500 a few weeks ago to someone.
It will be p0wned in under an hour at that contest.

I must say considering what Google is worth the prize of £12,500 and a laptop is chickenfeed.

If they were that confident surely something like half million would create more interest.

Although £12,500 is the top award, firefox and MSN came up with even less.

Microsoft, Mozilla and Apple have each offered $15,000 to the first person who can crack their browsers' security - $5,000 more than was given to the successful hackers at last year's event.


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Google probably stand a good chance at coming out on top at this years event, the security features in the browser are probably more advanced than anything else included in the contest.

Be interesting to see if Apple take home the wooden spoon again though.

eneville

KiwiCrazy wrote: »

1) I would not trust the Daily Mail

2) NOTHING is UNCRACKABLE!!!!

Using Linux here, I've never had a virus/spy ware, although I think there might be something like a dozen of them out there...

spakkker

Have I got the wrong end of the stick but isn't it G.Chrome that's saving all your surfing habits into the biggest computer network on earth.

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=54612.0

eneville

spakkker wrote: »

Have I got the wrong end of the stick but isn't it G.Chrome that's saving all your surfing habits into the biggest computer network on earth.

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=54612.0

If you're at all worried about your search habbits then you need to browse the web through anonymous proxies (tor/squid) and never have cookies or sessions enabled.

Maybe just browsing the web with lynx through tor is enough.

Best bet is to not have the google toolbar enabled, that checks page ranks of pages you visit which potentially will log your google domain cookie at google showing that you've visited that page.

It's a scary tech world which comes at a cost.