In a dubious demonstration of the insecurity of Apple's (AAPL) Macintosh OS X, a pair of software engineers won a free MacBook and, most likely, a $10,000 prize for finding and exploiting a security hole in the Safari Web browser.
The rules of the two-day contest
"PWN to OWN" contest, held at the CanSecWest computer security conference in Vancouver, B.C., were relaxed on the second day after none of participants were able to break into two MacBooks connected to a wireless router.
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