Microsoft invites hackers to test Vista - bit-tech.net Forums

Garside · 4th Aug 2006, 11:25

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2006/08...to_test_Vista/

DXR_13KE · 4th Aug 2006, 11:48

a good ideia, but it will end in what the article says, the haxors keeping the security holes to them selfs.

Agent_M · 4th Aug 2006, 11:51

unless microsoft give out large cash prizes for the security holes found, otherwise theres no reason for anyone to pay to get to las vegas.

DarkInferno · 4th Aug 2006, 12:09

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2006/08...to_test_Vista/

Rather then the preview :P

Garside · 4th Aug 2006, 12:15

Changed!

kenco_uk · 4th Aug 2006, 12:15

lol. Hacked already

Flibblebot · 4th Aug 2006, 12:20

Can't imagine any real hackers would go. What's the incentive, apart from to find the holes before anyone else does.
Sounds a bit like the episode of the Simpsons where Wiggum by inviting all the fine dodgers to the police station to win a speedboat, then arresting them...?

mikeuk2004 · 4th Aug 2006, 13:15

Nothing new there really as Microsoft has alwas used ex hackers to test their system in the past.

Kipman725 · 4th Aug 2006, 13:18

isn't this what every major software company does? penatration testing etc?

leviathan18 · 4th Aug 2006, 13:26

i want to do penatration testing but with women.....

couldnt resist xD

scq · 4th Aug 2006, 20:53

Quote:

Originally Posted by leviathan18

i want to do penatration testing but with women.....

couldnt resist xD

Except in the context of this forum, you're getting the women to test you...

Ouch.

As for ex h4x0rz, I'm pretty sure one hole with pop up after one is fixed. They still find holes in Windows 98 and 2000. Pretty much the only way to stop any security threat is to not be connected to the Internet. Even the US's Department of Defense can be penetrated by some madman looking for UFOs.

I'm sure Microsoft is only hiring these guys to flesh out any major holes for now. And for those Apple fanboys, this Macs have holes too. It's just that less people hack them because there's not enough Mac users for them to bother targeting.

TheColdLord · 6th Aug 2006, 12:18

Well this is a very bad move from MS. If hackers do come they will most definitly get screwed giving the hackers first hand acces to the security system and all its flaws. None of them will ever point out all the security holes It would work towards their disatvantage.

Loss of resources for MS, and if they do come then maybe the biggest holes will be revealed by them but surely not all.

4th Aug 2006, 11:25	#1
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DXR_13KE Madeira's banana is the best!!! Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Madeira ; Portugal Posts: 6,473	a good ideia, but it will end in what the article says, the haxors keeping the security holes to them selfs. __________________ *Renegade X - 0.40 Release!* <---- CLICK!

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DarkInferno Supermodder Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Birmingham, UK Posts: 426	http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2006/08...to_test_Vista/ Rather then the preview :P __________________ WARNING May contain sarcasm. Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is mearly energy condensed through a slow vibration, we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, life is only a dream and we are the imaginations of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather. - Bill Hicks

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Flibblebot Free from artificial flavourings Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Right here, right now Posts: 2,229	Can't imagine any real hackers would go. What's the incentive, apart from to find the holes before anyone else does. Sounds a bit like the episode of the Simpsons where Wiggum by inviting all the fine dodgers to the police station to win a speedboat, then arresting them...? __________________ My uber-system: 66Mhz 486DX2, 8Mb RAM, 20Mb hard drive, 256 colour VGA adaptor (goes all the way up to 800x600!), keyboard AND serial mouse

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TheColdLord Multimodder Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: @ Home:D Posts: 204	Well this is a very bad move from MS. If hackers do come they will most definitly get screwed giving the hackers first hand acces to the security system and all its flaws. None of them will ever point out all the security holes It would work towards their disatvantage. Loss of resources for MS, and if they do come then maybe the biggest holes will be revealed by them but surely not all. __________________ I'm my own futures smith. xxx