Organizers of CanSecWest security conference give hackers a shot at hacking into three laptops. The prize? US$20,000, plus you get to keep the laptop. Contest organizers are calling the contest PWN 2 OWN. Pwn (which rhymes with own) is a hacker term meaning to take control of a computer. Last year’s contest generated a lot of attention, but it featured only one laptop: a MacBook Pro. If no one has claimed the laptops by Friday, the prize bottoms out at $5,000 and organizers will install non-standard software on the machines.”]
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