any hackers got plans this weekend?

[anxi80]

Hacker Contest Targets Web Sites Sunday

if this is a repost, lemme kno and ill request a lock. i tried searching: hack, hacker, h4cker, h4ck3r, contest... you get the idea

 

[pulse8]

Cool.

 

[FuzzyBee]

Sounds like a joke to me. I like this quote:

The purported "prize" for participating hackers is 500 megabytes of online storage space.

That makes little sense to computer experts. They say hackers capable of breaking into thousands of computers could easily steal that amount of storage on corporate networks.

 

[notfred]

The purported "prize" for participating hackers is 500 megabytes of online storage space.

Lamest prize ever.

 

[dighn]

hack the planet!

 

[anxi80]

im kinda curious to see the site with the rules. of course, instead of saying this, im sure a google search could turn something up...

 

[fatbaby]

So the h4x0rs are willing to waste several hours of time for something thats worth about $200 a year? RIIIIIGHT..

 

[T3C]

Originally posted by: fatbaby
So the h4x0rs are willing to waste several hours of time for something thats worth about $200 a year? RIIIIIGHT..

 

[Nitemare]

Originally posted by: fuzzy bee
Sounds like a joke to me. I like this quote:

The purported "prize" for participating hackers is 500 megabytes of online storage space.

That makes little sense to computer experts. They say hackers capable of breaking into thousands of computers could easily steal that amount of storage on corporate networks.

Replace mega with giga and we might be talking

 

[stormbv]

I plan on hacking up a big gob of phlegm this weekend, does that count?

 

[FuzzyBee]

Originally posted by: stormbv
I plan on hacking up a big gob of phlegm this weekend, does that count?

you sure you didn't already?

 

[stormbv]

Originally posted by: fuzzy bee

Originally posted by: stormbv
I plan on hacking up a big gob of phlegm this weekend, does that count?

you sure you didn't already?

It's possible...

 

[Zee]

Terminator 3.5
The rise of the geeks.


I cant believe this crap is all over the 10:00 news

 

[WarmAndSCSI]

Originally posted by: notfred

The purported "prize" for participating hackers is 500 megabytes of online storage space.

Lamest prize ever.

Seriously... if you're that elite, wouldn't you run your OWN webservers???

 

[Fudssa]

Originally posted by: pulse8
Cool.

 

[conjur]

CNN Article

 

[TJN23]

COOL!! :beer::beer::beer:

 

[KokomoGST]

It would be more funny if sites like the MPAA, RIAA, etc got hacked again and again.

 

[Dedpuhl]

Originally posted by: KokomoGST
It would be more funny if sites like the MPAA, RIAA, etc got hacked again and again.

....that happens already....at least for the RIAA

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: WarmAndSCSI

Originally posted by: notfred

The purported "prize" for participating hackers is 500 megabytes of online storage space.

Lamest prize ever.

Seriously... if you're that elite, wouldn't you run your OWN webservers???

If you are truely elite, you would 0wn your own webserver.

 

[Schadenfroh]

i wish i was a 1337 haXor

 

[Rainsford]

Quite possibly the stupidest contest ever. A real hacker contest would not have a target of 6,000 sites, that's childs play with the right tools given how many security-dumb people seem to run websites. A real contest would be to break into a really well defended system. Guess that might be too much of a challenge for these guys though.

 

[guyver01]

Originally posted by: Rainsford
Quite possibly the stupidest contest ever. A real hacker contest would not have a target of 6,000 sites, that's childs play with the right tools given how many security-dumb people seem to run websites. A real contest would be to break into a really well defended system. Guess that might be too much of a challenge for these guys though.

http://www.macnn.com/news/20019

The hacker defacement contest, which is expected to kick off on Sunday, will award free hosting services, Web mail, unlimited E-mail forwarding, and a domain name of choice to hackers who can break into various Websites, according to InformationWeek. The contest offers the most points for hackers who are successful in hacking a Mac: "Web-site defacement points will be awarded based on the type of operating system running the Web site. Defacement of Web sites running Windows will only win a single point, while sites running Linux, Unix, and BSD are each worth three points. Sites running AIX, IBM's version of Unix, are worth three points, while sites running HP-UX, Hewlett-Packard's version of Unix, and Macintosh, Apple's operating system, are worth up to five points."

 

[UglyCasanova]

Originally posted by: Zeero
I cant believe this crap is all over the 10:00 news

Yeah, I know.

"Don't turn on your computers this Sunday, h4x0rs are having a contest to see how many websites they can hack. If not well defended, your computer could potentially explode."

AAaagghhhh!

:Q

 

[conjur]

Reminds me of that Michaelangelo virus scare from like 7-8 years ago.