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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."

3 of 55 comments (clear)

  1. Burning Platform by Freshly+Exhumed · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh come on, Finns! Didn't you get the memo that only Windows 8 will provide a future for all students? Clearly the comparatively high quality and level of education of Finnish students is burning, and they must jump. It cannot be sustained, so the existing system must be abandoned. It is time to adopt the Microsoft education curriculum. With this, Finland can successfully, drastically reduce the number of educators, divest huge amounts of school real estate, slash maintenance costs, and give the five remaining students a wonderful head start on their success.

    Yours truly, Stephen Elop.

    --
    I deny that I have not avoided attaining the opposite of that which I do not want.
  2. Re: cash money by aliquis · · Score: 4, Informative

    No need for modern gimmicks such as eurosigns on Slashdot.

  3. 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.