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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.
It is impossible to hack Linux systems, so I bet they were running Windows. Windows, or "Winblow$" as I like to call it, is riddled with security holes. It's like Swiss cheese!
Shit, why did I have to post to that damn cable story??? Oh well, 5th post.
FRIST P0sT!!
Contest: To all Hackers, lets see who gets busted first!
This was pretty interesting to read about. But I'm afraid they are just giving real "hackers" a bad name again.
Slashdot does us all a disservice by running this. If Linux does indeed go bankrupt, I think we all will share in the blame.
Karma: Good (despite my invention of the Karma: sig)
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?
We do not live in the 21st century. We live in the 20 second century.
The US invented the Internet.
Korea and other miscellaneous non-American countries are ruining it.
Thanks.
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)
Interesting the last question was regarding slashdot's outdated code.
You want real news? Me too.
Ace
Because once a service get meat packed up is poop chute, ever other services become part of the reach around. We call that a raging homosexual ritual in the hacker community.