@richardw66 1) They themselves will call themselves hackers. White hat hackers but hackers none the less. If they call themselves hackers, then NonZealot can too.
2) Charlie Miller explicitly claims to go after low hanging fruit. Search around and you won't find interviews with him hard to find.
3) The reason they go after the low hanging fruit is that there is money in finding an exploit (again this based on interviews with the contestants) and they save their best exploits for where they can get money.
4) There have been successful in the wild attacks against macs and linux. Many years ago a guy challenged the world by putting a fully patched Mac outside a firewall and challenged the world to hack it. It fell within 30 minutes.
5) Macs are not as interesting targets because Apple really doesn't do servers and servers are the primary targets of hacks.
6) BSD on which OS-X based was found to have a back door that went un-noticed for over a year.
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