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'Mayhem' Wins $2M In DARPA's AI Hacking Contest, Draws EFF Scrutiny (eff.org)
Here's the highlight reel from the DARPA-sponsored "Cyber Grand Challenge" competition. Slashdot reader alphadogg writes:
Cyber-reasoning platform Mayhem pulled down the $2 million first prize in a competition...that pitted entrants against each other in the classic hacking game Capture the Flag, never before played by programs running on supercomputers. A team from Carnegie Mellon University spin-out All Secure entered Mayhem in the competition against six other programs played in front of thousands in the ballroom of the Paris hotel in Las Vegas. Most of the spectators were in town for the DEF CON hacker conference starting Friday at the same site.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation wrote "We think that this initiative by DARPA is very cool, very innovative, and could have been a little dangerous." Sharing their blog post about automated security research, the EFF's staff technologist Peter Eckersley writes: EFF is asking, does research like that need a safety protocol?
The Electronic Frontier Foundation wrote "We think that this initiative by DARPA is very cool, very innovative, and could have been a little dangerous." Sharing their blog post about automated security research, the EFF's staff technologist Peter Eckersley writes: EFF is asking, does research like that need a safety protocol?
The only reason such safety protocols would be needed is because of our fundamentally wrong attitude towards systems, their safety and security. Sorry, maintaining a garden is not a growth industry but somebody is still doing it. Or maybe it's just architectural problem for which a highly technical and profitable solution can be found..
And treasonousers are best dealt hanging by the nuts until dead.
And the "hackers" watching from a phone have to use the share link to get the YouTube URL to see it in a player that can be full screened. Self included.
never before played by programs running on supercomputers.
Except of course last year for the same event.......
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
What good does that do against people who follow no rules?
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
A) It's not that intelligent and certainly doesn't reason. There was a framework to the competition, so it wasn't a wild goose chase within the x86 ISA. For example, https://github.com/CyberGrandChallenge/samples/blob/master/examples/CADET_00001/src/service.c. This code has a 'bug" that's only found by brute forcing ASCII characters on input to that function.
B) EFF doesn't need to worry about this thing becoming sentient and starting Skynet. It's certainly a predefined set of common system flaws which, at best, use machine learning for their implementation.
https://www.cybergrandchallenge.com/tech
I can't confirm the presence of LGBT participants since obvious reasons, but I can say that the entire convention was well represented by women and non-white and non-English speaking whites. So fuck off