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LinuxPPC Challenge: Crack the Box and Keep it!

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the contests-with-incentive dept.

Jeff Carr from LinuxPPC was so amused by yesterday's MS W2k crack challange that he figured he'd play too: By setting up a LinuxPPC box challanging the adept out there to get in... but if you can get in, you get to keep the box! Its a stock LinuxPPC install, and he even left telnet on. The url is crack.linuxppc.org. You must be able to reproduce your entry to win. Have fun.

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  1. You break it, you keep it. by SirSlud · · Score: 4

    Sounds suspiciously like a contest I run everyday when I bike to work. It's called "break the bike lock and keep the bike!".

    SirSlud

    --
    "Old man yells at systemd"
  2. A very good idea to route back the efforts, indeed by arieh · · Score: 3

    Kudos to the PPC guys.

    No better way to detract from the interest that
    Microsoft may have generated than to divert back the efforts of the linux community to a more
    worthy cause - improving the security of our own systems.

    Let's eat our own (dog)food.

    Arieh

    --
    -- We have been doing so much with so little for so long, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.
  3. This could turn into "King of the Hill" by slothbait · · Score: 3
    The comment:
    If you get in, please submit a better webpage than this :)
    ...made me think. Whoever can make it into this box gets to replace the web page with whatever they want...they become owners and get to be "King of the Hill". Plus, if they acquire root access, then they presumably have the power to patch whatever hole they crawled through, making the box that much more secure.

    But what could really prove interesting is if someone tried to break in and steal from the stealer...knocking off the old King and resulting in a King of the Hill, and so on...

    All the while, people would be stress-testing the system. And people will have an ego-incentive to discover security holes because, if they find a way in, they get to be "King of the Mountain" until someone else finds a new way to crack the box.

    Oh what a game this could become!!!
    --Lenny
  4. Re:MS site is down by pmmay · · Score: 3

    They have a status page up. This is only from yesterday's activities:

    8/3/99 Events
    3:22pm - Network connections down due to router failure, possibly related to thunderstorms and power failures in the area

    2:59pm - Network connections intermittently up

    12:40pm - Network connections down due to router failure

    11:02am - Services restarted

    10:47am - Some services failed after reboot

    10:45am - Reboot because the System log was full

    10:30am - Network connections down due to router failure