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Comments · 6

  1. Re:isn't $250 kinda cheap? by milamber.net · · Score: 1 · on Get Paid To Crack?

    For a company thats worth $25 million $250 is kinda cheap... so how about $43,000? ;)

  2. Re:This won't work realistically. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Get Paid To Crack?

    read the second bullet point, and you'll see that you can come from as many spoofed IPs as you want, as long as you let them know first... and they're not going to shut out those IPs and say, "hah! now you can't hack us from them!"

    That's not the point of the competition. Read the article before you post, you silly slashdotter, you.

  3. Re:Future Build Weaknesses by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Get Paid To Crack?

    you obviously didn't read the article either... they send a money order, not a check, and they don't ask for your name (unless you want to get paid)

    I think the idea is not to figure out how hackers think, but to figure out what types of decisions hackers make... Which is significantly easier in the sense of it's possible. Looking for patterns that are typical of hacking to design a good IDS is a good idea.

    And you're arrogant. Cut that out.

  4. Re:Mitnick Trick? by RPI+Geek · · Score: 1 · on Get Paid To Crack?

    I, for one, would be seriously surprised if anyone at Microsoft uses this to build a better system. I could see if this research was used for security outfits to track B&Es, but even that's a little loosey-goosey, IMHO.

    I'd be really surprised too, because in the FAQ they say that they'd rather M$ fix the problems before releasing software so they wouldn't have to do this sort of thing.

    Come now, doesn't this remind you of the RIAA's amnesty offer?

    Nope. This seems legit to me. If you're good enough to hack/crack/phreak illegally without getting caught, then you should be able to make arrangements to not be caught for this too.

  5. Too late to join by infolib · · Score: 2, Informative · on Get Paid To Crack?

    According to the FAQ

    Q23: I'm too busy to do this right now, but I'd like to do it later. How long is this study going on?

    A: We anticipate the study to be wrapping up at the end of 2003, but we will probably be done recruiting by mid-year at the latest, so don't wait too long. Sorry, no reservations accepted.

    I'll go digging at archive.org now to find out how long they've been up.

  6. Not a lot of confidence... by Johnny+Mnemonic · · Score: 3, Informative · on Get Paid To Crack?


    From their FAQ:

    You should be able to complete the goals easily without the need to break any laws...[in] about 5 hours

    Sounds like this is more of a "target-rich environment" where they expect the dedicated hacker to succeed, and they want to study means/methods, rather than a "our box is unbreakable" type challenge. I think they'll be writing a lot of $250 checks--which explains also why the sum is low.