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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! by cube00 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Contest: To all Hackers, lets see who gets busted first!

  2. Re:Korea and the Internet by Hektor_Troy · · Score: 1, Troll

    At the risk of sounding like an insensitive racist jerk, what, exactly, has the US contributed positively to the net? 85% of the spam _I_ get continues to be from the US and they have effectively made a shambles out of the internet (witness DMCA, SSSCA (or whatever it's called today etc). 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.

    Or is it something completly different, when it's the US that's the troublemaker?

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