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Finland's Upper Secondary School Exams Going All-Linux

Posted by timothy on from the local-boy-makes-good dept.

First time accepted submitter jovius writes "The Matriculation Examination Board of Finland has just opened an international hacking contest to find flaws and exploits in Digabi Live — the Live Debian based operating system to be used in the all-digital final exams by the year 2016. The contest ends on 1st of September, and the winners are about to scoop hefty hardware prizes, also available as cash."

2 of 55 comments (clear)

  1. Re: cash money by aliquis · · Score: 4, Informative

    No need for modern gimmicks such as eurosigns on Slashdot.

  2. OMG Ponies! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Seem to be two separate stories here...

    1 - Matriculation Examination Board of Finland is replacing pen/paper exams with exams in a live-cd (or usb-booted live environment or similar) examination system (and with associated back end systems, databases, aaa, etc)

    2 - Matriculation Examination Board of Finland is holding a hacking competition to find security flaws/vulnerabilities in the student live-cd OS.