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Chrome has superior sandboxing of the rendering engine than Safari, so even if you could crash Chrome with the bug, actually doing something "useful" would be s

• adsr 16y ago
  Theoretically that may be, but this time Chrome won only because the contestant didn't show up. "The third browser to be tested was scheduled to be Chrome. However, the contestant registered to attempt the attack did not show up, so the browser remains unbeaten."
  • jamesaguilar 16y ago
    I wonder if there is a reason he didn't show up. For example, perhaps he was incapable of demonstrating any exploit. It's not as simple as "it would have been compromised if the contestant showed up."
    • adsr 16y ago
      Of course it's not that simple! I did not mean to imply that. By the same token as it's not as simple as, he/she wasn't able to produce an exploit.
  • trotsky 16y ago
    No one competes if no one has a working sploit. You have to sign up months in advance.
    • adsr 16y ago
      Yes, but the contest really test the ability of a hacker more than the weakness of a browser. It's hardly scientific.