I don't see the 'rule change' as indicative of anything beyond 'Why Bother for $2k?'. Would I give up 24h of my life to target a bit of hardware that others are attacking at the same time to only win that same bit of hardware? Hardware's cheap, and I don't want a Mac. That doesn't mean that mac's are safe, which would be the apparent marketing result of nobody being bothered to break into one for a chance at winning some hardware they don't need.
Make it about some sensible money, and ears start pricking up. Make it real-world, and they do even moreso. Apple sell macs on the basis that they come with everything you need already installed in one big apple love-in (itunes, ipictures, ivideo or whatever they call it - they run billboard ads to the same message about how integrated it all is...), so if a bit of that pre-installed 'ware has vulns, that's only fair to attack them.
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I don't see the 'rule change' as indicative of anything beyond 'Why Bother for $2k?'. Would I give up 24h of my life to target a bit of hardware that others are attacking at the same time to only win that same bit of hardware? Hardware's cheap, and I don't want a Mac. That doesn't mean that mac's are safe, which would be the apparent marketing result of nobody being bothered to break into one for a chance at winning some hardware they don't need.
Make it about some sensible money, and ears start pricking up. Make it real-world, and they do even moreso. Apple sell macs on the basis that they come with everything you need already installed in one big apple love-in (itunes, ipictures, ivideo or whatever they call it - they run billboard ads to the same message about how integrated it all is...), so if a bit of that pre-installed 'ware has vulns, that's only fair to attack them.