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Pwn2Own 2010: interview with Charlie Miller Print E-mail
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Source: OneITSecurity - Posted by Alex   
Pwn2Own is a famous contest held in CansecWest Conference. Every year there is a big reward for researchers who finds exploitable bugs in popular browser and OS and also in mobile devices like iPhone. For the past two years the Pwn2Own contest champion was Charlie Miller (0xcharlie on Twitter), one of the most famous bug hunter and security expert in the world. Pwn2Own 2010 will will be held over the course of three days starting on March 24th, so, we decided to interview Charlie Miller (italian version here) and here are his anwers:

You won, for two years, Pwn2Own contest hacking Safari on Mac OS X. Will Safari and Mac be your targets for the Pwn2Own 2010 contest as well?

Everything is my target at this point. I’d love to hack one of the mobile devices, but will probably end up on Safari again. I was the first to hack the iPhone and an Android device in the past, so I am comfortable with those two platforms, but its harder to exploit them. This year only one person can win per target, so my biggest obstacle will be making sure nobody beats me to the punch.

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