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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."
the timeframe was too short to do anything high profile. In other words, the distro was more secure than it could be hacked in 96 hours. However, with servers online years, you have a much better situation from the attacker's viewpoint, even if your box is fully patched.
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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 didn't report it, just b/c I thought it was too little a feat to mention. Password: Joshua.
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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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