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The results are in (was: How much do you trust your (operating) system?)
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 9:29 am
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Posted by gewg_ (4444 messages posted)


gewg_ wrote:
|Brazil recently announced a contest to allow hackers to try to crack their system.
|The teams will be given the source code for everything
|and will be granted physical access to the hardware.
|[...]I like Roy's phrasing of the situation: 
|Read the title bar of your browser to see what I mean.
|[...]It will be interesting to see how things go with the hackers in Brazil.

The final tally:
For 4 days, 38 teams hacked at the code and the physical system. 
One minor flaw (which would not compromise the overall results) was found.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/11/14/1936200

Googles's automated Portugese-to-English translation of the results summary
is amazingly clear.
My question:  Is Portuguese that cool or is that author that good?

...and I still think it's a lousy idea to store votes as bits.



Written in response to:
How much do you trust your (operating) system? (gewg_: Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 5:46 pm)

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All messages in this thread [show all]
-How much do you trust your (operating) system? (gewg_: Thu, Nov 5, 2009, 5:46 pm)
-re: How much do you trust your (operating) system? (MartinM: Mon, Nov 9, 2009, 11:21 pm)
*re: How much do you trust your (operating) system? (gewg_: Tue, Nov 10, 2009, 9:51 am)
*The results are in (was: How much do you trust your (operating) system?) (gewg_: Wed, Nov 18, 2009, 9:29 am)
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