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Title	Gone in 2 minutes: Mac gets hacked first in contest
Type	News
Source	IDG News Service 03/27/2008
Summary	It may be the quickest $10,000 Charlie Miller ever earned. He took the first of three laptop computers -- and a $10,000 cash prize -- Thursday after breaking into a MacBook Air at the CanSecWest security conference's PWN 2 OWN hacking contest. continue

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