Re: Kill the DOG and win 100 000 DM

[Lincoln Yeoh <lyeoh () POP JARING MY>]

At 10:12 PM 11/4/00 -0000, Talisker wrote:
> Steve
>
> > What is a contest such as this going to prove?  That in four days a bunch
> of
> > script kiddies will pound away at a system they know nothing about?  There
> > is a very good chance that you will come out of this "contest" un-hacked
> and
> > again, what will that prove?
>
> I suspect the prize money may draw a few zero-day exploits out of the
> woodwork

Well they only have the ports open on the first day.

It only starts to get interesting on the 3rd and 4th days.

Probably more fun to get an evaluation copy or two and mess about with it
for 30 days.

But such publicity stunts are always useful. You get free media exposure
for spending the premium on the insurance (if insured), or DM100,000 *
probability of hack.

As a comparison: what was the result of the Win 2K hack contest anyway?

Cheerio,
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