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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. Korea and the Internet by mumblestheclown · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    At the risk of sounding like an insensitive racist jerk, what, exactly, has korea contributed positively to the net? 85% of the spam i get continues to be Korean and they have effectively made a shambles out of the korean war project. We're not talking about a Nigeria and it's 419 scams. We're talking about a country that has the resources and ability to be doing a lot more than it currently is.

    From time to time, the internet death penalty for countries has been considered and is actually implemented locally by particularly zealous sysadmins. But we've seen that this tends to, at best, piss off a few users unless it's implemented really widely, which it is unlikely to ever be. So, what is the answer to korea?

    note: I have visited korea three times and have found it to be a great place. it's their extremely half-assed internet policies that I object to

    1. Re:Korea and the Internet by Hektor_Troy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Actually it's not just a troll; it's an interesting, insightful, flambaiting troll (according to the moderation).

      Actually it wasn't meant as a troll, but a twist on the parent posts argument, that Korea was the backwater swamp ... aparently that particular twist is rather close to home judging by the moderations and replies :-)

      You could say "Why doesn't do so much more!"

      Which is excactly what I did, but some people (none mentioned, none forgotten) aparently get their panties in a twist when their own country is the target of the pointy end of the stick.

      As for the backbone, have a look at shysters reply :-)

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      We do not live in the 21st century. We live in the 20 second century.
  2. Re:New Contest by Selmo · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    The first hacker to break in gets a large prize....

    Like what? Taking Bubba's schlong up the cornhole in the federal pen? Some "large prize"