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Linuxense Break-in Challenge Over
hot_Karls_bad_cavern writes "As previously mentioned on Slashdot, the Linuxense Break-In Challenge has ended and some results posted, including a torrent link to the packet capture dump. The great Linux guru winner: no one. After the 96 hours, the machine was still safe and sound. Distro on the target machine: Adamantix."
Anyone capabile of breaking that machine isn't about to announce that little bit of information to the whole world.
Public security "tests" are useless (from a security standpoint) publicity shows.
I fully agree.
Apparently they expected people to whip out their magic wands of hax0ring skillz.
Personally, I would have kept the server up until someone finally broke through (although for a lesser prize?) just out of curiosity.
I was just about to post the same thing from the faq. This "challenge" proves little to nil considering their server wasn't capable of handling the network traffic. There's a million analogies that come to mind, but I think a good one would be a boxing match. Their victory is tantamount to a boxer claiming to be the heavyweight championship because nobody beat them in a fight, but the reason nobody beat them is that all the potential challengers were stuck in the doorway into the arena. It doesn't prove a victory, it proves the doors need to be bigger. Bringing that thought back around to this hack challenge, all that was proved is their hardware is insufficient for any moderately high traffic load. I don't think a victory dance is in order.
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