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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. Incredible... by mongoks · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Bill Wong, of New York, who after hearing about the compromised registration server was then asked for bank account details, became suspicious. "At this point," said Wong, "I don't know whether to provide them with that information and, if in fact, whether I actually did win anything. I'm beginning to suspect that this could be a spam or a hoax (perhaps, even from the start)."

    Gosh Bill, ya think?