I was there, and I have been reading the banter on the blogs and news sites. People, the contest was not about which platform is the strongest or weakest! It was a contest to see who could hack into any of the platforms. As for what platform a given person chooses to hack, what does it matter which one they choose beyond understanding that that hacker is most familiar with that given platform that they hacked? If I’m historically a Linux security professional, why would I spend my significant time and effort to find a Windows hack (and vice versa)?
Just let the contest be about the hackers who were in attendance with an opportunity to have a go at the machines they choose and be less about the operating systems that were beaten or not. For all we know more of the attendees could have spent the majority of their time trying to hack Vista or OSX for the publicity effect and not even decided to seriously challenge the Linux Ubuntu platform. I wouldn’t be so confident to jump up and say it is hacker-proof simply because the attendees with this level of knowledge chose to focus on one of the other operating systems.
As much as I dislike Vista and Windows in general, I have to defend them (and OSX) a little and just state the obvious. Three different systems were presented so that the widest variety of hackers could have a go at what they know. No more, no less!
By the way, the sessions I attended were excellent and a lot of fun!
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