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The Dirty Secret Behind the Salesforce $1M Hackathon (medium.com/hackers-and-hacking)
11 points by dzlobin on Nov 25, 2013 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



Now for a real (non-rigged) competition judged on merit:

https://dtsn.darpa.mil/cybergrandchallenge/CyberGrandChallen...

• 1st place: $2,000,000

• 2nd place: $1,000,000

• 3rd place: $750,000

Good luck writing a service that prevents shell-code injection and actively patches executables after realizing RCE has taken place...All without source code.. That's why the prizes are so big. You can pretty much stake a billion-dollar company on an IDS system that versatile.




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