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Moronic Hacking Contest Ends In Free-For-All

Posted by chrisd on from the stupid-marketing-tricks-end-badly dept.

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.

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  1. Yeah, but... by athmanb · · Score: 5, Interesting

    A real webserver usually runs a couple of different dynamic page scripts (Perl, PHP, ASP, whatever). And they are usually the key point to break in.