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.

Comments

Yes, but...

[Anonymous Coward]

c@n u h@x0r an 3c0noML3t???!!!1

woo hoo

[Anonymous Coward]

aaw yeah

Re:They must have been running Windows

[Anonymous Coward]

At least swiss cheese tastes good.

Korea and the Internet

[mumblestheclown]

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

Re:Korea and the Internet

[Anonymous Coward]

You're just bitter because the DPRK kicked
America's ass in the Korean War.
Long live the Juche Idea!

Re:Korea and the Internet

[Anonymous Coward]

At the risk of sounding like an insensitive racist jerk

Or just a troll?

what, exactly, has the US contributed positively to the net?

What have you contributed positively to the net?

a country that has the resources and ability to be doing a lot more than it currently is.

Like inventing the whole damn thing?

Re:Korea and the Internet

[Anonymous Coward]

Korean girls are hot.

Re:Korea and the Internet

[Hektor_Troy]

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 :-)

Re:I'll start my own

[Anonymous Coward]

That isn't a real troll or crapflood. I'm
disappointed.

Slashdot sucks

[Ace905]

Here are your recent submissions to Slashdot, and their status within the system:

2001-01-11 20:10:14 Canadian Internet Access (askslashdot,news) (rejected)
2001-02-28 21:34:29 New security exploit puts companies at risk (articles,news) (rejected)
2001-03-12 06:38:52 DMoZ promotes the wrong people (askslashdot,news) (rejected)
2001-04-06 01:17:08 Bearshare = Spyware (articles,news) (rejected)
2001-08-17 22:07:40 Open Sourcing your Telephone (articles,news) (rejected)
2001-09-30 22:39:32 ECA's Programming contest at the Eggforge (articles,programming) (rejected)
2001-10-09 14:34:13 Network Solutions resorts to Telemarketing (articles,news) (rejected)
2001-11-27 18:49:49 The "Courtesy" Support Team (askslashdot,news) (rejected)
2001-11-27 19:34:42 Has anyone on slashdot ever gotten a story publish (askslashdot,news) (rejected)
2002-06-03 21:09:19 Slashdot, Slashcode and the W3C (askslashdot,internet) (rejected)
Summary:

rejected (10)

You want real news? Me too.

If Manson had entered

[L. VeGas]

I don't like the contest because it's not "real" enough. How 'bout I hack your wife to death? That real enough for 'ya?

True statement for the day

[Anonymous Coward]

Slashdot editors are my bitch!!!

Re:New Contest

[Selmo]

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"

Re:Jeebus...

[Anonymous Coward]

Hey, man. Desperate, fat, ugly girls don't count!

Re:Stealing Links?

[Anonymous Coward]

True, but at least do it in a timely fashion! I read this (got there from freshmeat) a couple of days ago! Then the question becomes, why did I read the /. version when I knew it would probably be the same thing...

Re:no, he does mean hackers!

[Anonymous Coward]

Lawful Evil in partiular since the money is a self motivational goal.

Please get it right. Self-motivational goals are not automatically evil morals.

And Money != Evil; Money == (Evil)^(1/2).

Re:Jeebus...

[Anonymous Coward]

Real world note: the guy dreamed this up while jerking off to the Vulcan chick on Enterprise.

Chicks dig hackers

Dream on dweeb. Chicks usually dig personality, social skills, confidence, money, power etc. - all of which are in rather short supply in the hacker community; if hackers had any real power they wouldn't be so desperate to show how "powerful" they are.

Do all of you realize just what a pathetic weenie threat: "Don't mess with me man I can hack your system!" is?

First Stock Quote Post

[Stock Quote Troll]

Losing Grasp?

Sun Microsystems is down 0.07 to 34.73.

Investors Happy With Non-Linux Firms

Investors largely shrugged off a report that showed the number of Linux installs increasing. When Mike Gordon of New York was asked about it he said, "Everyone knows that Linux is not as stable as Microsoft's Windows 2000. It is also quite clear this data was published by a pro-Linux firm." It was this sentiment that pushed Microsoft (MSFT) down 0.74 to 50.16.

First Stock Quote Post

[Stock Quote Troll]

Losing Grasp?

An analyst on the street must have seen RMS recently making the open sores community look even worse. It looks like the street has lost confidence in Sun Microsystems (SUN). It is down 0.10.

Stocks that are currently up

Luckily Microsoft (MSFT) is up by 0.73. This is obviously good for the economy and our country. Microsoft obviously is against all open sores software and is being rewarded for it's choices.

First Linux is Dying Post

[Stock Quote Troll]

Losing Grasp?

Sun Microsystems is down 0.09.

Investors Happy With Non-Linux Firms

The street is currently tracking Microsoft (MSFT) as it is up 0.49. The analysts claim it is because they don't use open sores software.

Re:You can't always get what you want, but....

[Anonymous Coward]

The stomach blow was the trigger that caused the appendicitis.