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Topic created on: October 17, 2006 14:17 CDT by 0xCC .

Is this site legit?
http://hackerchallenge.org

If so it looks like the US gov is looking to give out some money for doing crackmes. Worst case somebody is tring to collect e-mail addresses, best case looks like $4100. Whats the catch?

To quote from the site "We expect that an intermediate hacker with Linux experience should be able to defeat the protections in less than 10 hours. Participants may earn up to $4100 USD."

slcoleman		October 17, 2006 20:58.40 CDT
They say it a US Corp, funded by the Gov, but not the Gov itself. Perhaps a think-tank or research grant of some kind. In any case I tested the water by using a throwaway address to submit an entry and so far no emails were received telling me what to do next even though the web site said it was sent. I can't believe that they are collecting addresses because there isn't enough "market" out there for spammers to worry about marketing re software tools. Perhaps their web site is just broken?

sebastianapelt		October 18, 2006 14:09.18 CDT
"intermediate hacker with linux experience" ^^ sounds quite strange =D

Silkut		October 24, 2006 11:05.12 CDT
Since I confirmed my registration I did not received any news.. EDIT: It's ok i recevied the files for the challenge.

2GooD		November 4, 2006 10:34.35 CST
So, anyone finished yet? :-) I forgot about it until I got the mail, so I had no test environment setup or anything... :-)

gera		November 4, 2006 19:19.26 CST
I was too slow to register (never knew it was due 31-Oct... anybody want to share the files?

GynvaelColdwind		November 28, 2006 17:25.12 CST
Anybody heard from the hackerchallenge makers anything recently?

abhinavvaid		December 6, 2006 00:05.52 CST
> GynvaelColdwind: Anybody heard from the hackerchallenge makers anything recently? NO news, looks like getting isolated !!!

trufae		December 6, 2006 10:47.00 CST
Results have been published in the main page of hackerchallenge.org in December 05 2006 18:41:15 EST.

GynvaelColdwind		December 7, 2006 03:23.30 CST
Hehe yep. Sorry, looks like I was too impatient =^^= Anyway trufae congratz for the 3rd place in reports =^^=

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