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You'll almost certainly see a flood of articles dumping on the insecurity of Apple's products this week. Here's why you should take them with a pinch of salt.


The annual Pwn2Own contest starts today at the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, Canada.

In a nutshell, competitors have to demonstrate remote code execution with minimal user interaction. The first to succeed wins the attacked device (laptop or mobile phone), $US10,000 cash, and certain benefits.

This year's targets are Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 on Windows 7, Mozilla Firefox 3 on Windows 7, Google Chrome 4 on Windows 7, and Safari 4 on Mac OS X Snow Leopard.

That's for the first day of competition. Windows 7 is replaced with Vista on day two, and XP on day three.

On the mobile phone side, the targets are iPhone (3GS), BlackBerry (Bold 9700), Symbian S60 (Nokia), and Android (Motorola).

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