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Moronic Hacking Contest Ends In Free-For-All
atomgiant writes "ZDNet is running an interesting article about the KDWorks hacking contest that has gone bad, or good, depending on your perspective. Entertaining read in any event." I think that Bruce Schneier has said it best on the value of contests such as this one. That the registration server was compromised I think is a telling comment on the value of whole site security.
It's a silly idea all together, hacking, but I guess it must be better than girls/sunlight.
:)
Any hackers who get busted deserve what they get for being dumb enough to show.
I recall a sherrif's dept. sending out letters to people with outstanding warrants exclaiming that they had one a prize and had to go to a certain address to claim it. Needless to say, the cops had a field day arresting all sorts of people, who were actually dumb enough to buy the ploy.
Just rememebr, if you're doing illegal things, there's always a chance you'll get caught. The best thing to do is just not get caught
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LU
Maybe I'll start my own hacking contest. I give the winner a billion dollars. I'll setup 2 computers, one connected to the 'net, completely open and unpatched. It'll physically sit on top of the "secure" box, which won't be connected, or even turned on. When the "winner" tries to claim his prize, I'll simply state that he hacked the "decoy", and the real server was untouched. Sounds about as fair as this one.
I'm just waiting for the "actually I think you mean crackers, hackers are..." comment!
Well, the contest was for hackers and not crackers. Crackers got the registration machine, but since the "contest" machine had an open invitation to break in, there was nothing illegal about it.
Remember, the class requirements for the Cracker class has the ethical alignment of Chaotic as a requirement. Hackers can have any Ethical Alignments. The White Hat Cracker class has a Chaotic Good alignment requirement. Since they asked people to hack the box it would be very within the Lawful alignments, Lawful Evil in partiular since the money is a self motivational goal. A Lawful Good Hacker would submit a resume so that he can properly lock down the registration computer.
Did I mention the GNU Hacker Prestige class? Must have a Lawful alignment, otherwise the whole bit about licencing wouldn't have any meaning to them. BSD Hackers are closer to True Neutral, since they don't care what is done as long as they get credit.
--Shemnon
At the risk of sounding like an insensitive racist jerk, what, exactly, has the US contributed positively to the net?
Uhhh... other than inventing the damn thing?
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This reminds me of my old boss that was taking karate lessons. He went up to a geek I worked with and asked him to "try to kick me as hard as you can". He hadn't even finished the sentence when Ken slammed him in the jewels so hard that my boss threw up. All he kept saying was "But I wasn't ready!"
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FWIW, they went apeshit over StarCraft, which provided revenues for other projects like Diablo II and WarCraft III.
"As entrants were required to enter personal details together with some form of identification--such as a passport or social security number--in the event that they won the competition, some are worried that their privacy has been compromised."
Doesn't anyone else just find that line HILLAIROUS!? I mean, c'mon... if anyone should be familiar with the vuneralbilities of a web server, and personal information found on said web server, it should be a bunch of "hackers". This is so stupid, I can't even believe it. It has to be a hoax...
Jason
He's totally creeping out the Great One, eh...
I had a job interview a few months ago. I went there for the interview on time, I entered the Office, nobody was in there, so I looked around to find a few servers and some of them where powered on and logged on. So I sat down and waited until a guy arrived 10 minutes later.
:)
When I asked them why they used Solaris as there servers, they told me that it was more secure than Windows and Linux
Unfortunately, the margin was too small to contain the proof.
Master: Do you see the candle on the table, you must put it out using only your energy. Student: What energy master? Master: Do you not feel the energy within me? You must learn to use that for yourself. Student: I think I understand master. Student grabs the master and slings him ontop of the table and the candle falls to the floor. Master: Get out of my class!
From: ""±èÅÂæ""
To: ""bcw@rave.ch""
Subject: KDWORKS Notice mail
Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 03:18:31 +0900
Hi!
We will wire your prize as soon as we get your bank account information.
we need;
1) bank account number
2) bank routing number
3) Name on the account
4) Name of COuntry where the bank resides.
If you have any question or concern, please let us know.
Have a great day!