{"id":382,"date":"2006-12-08T07:48:02","date_gmt":"2006-12-08T07:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/2006\/12\/linux-reverse-engineering-hacker-challenge\/"},"modified":"2015-09-09T19:40:29","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T11:40:29","slug":"linux-reverse-engineering-hacker-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/2006\/12\/linux-reverse-engineering-hacker-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux Reverse Engineering Hacker Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ad]<\/p>\n<p>The first round results of the Linux Reverse Engineering Hacker Challenge are out!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hackerchallenge.org\">http:\/\/www.hackerchallenge.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was expected that an intermediate hacker with Linux experience should be able to defeat the protection(s) in less than 10 hours. Participants may earn up to $4100 USD.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 93 individuals registered to participate in the first Hacker Challenge. Individuals were compensated for defeating the protection and submitting a report that summarized how the defeat was executed. All individuals who defeated the protection and submitted a sufficient report were compensated with $500, while a partial defeat which was accompanied by a complete report was compensated with $200 (all payments in US dollars, with payments made anonymously via PayPal). Special payments were made for the first three successful defeats, as well as the top-three highest-quality reports<\/p>\n<p>The competition is apparently run by a US based company anonymously and all payouts are made via PayPal.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We are a US company performing security testing and security metric research. This activity is being funded by a component of the US government.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The purpose of this project is to evaluate the effectiveness of software anti-piracy protections. The results of this effort will be used to improve our protection measures.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps something to do with the RIAA or DMCA as they are evaluating anti-piracy measures.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is a security testing activity. All software and software anti-piracy measures were developed exclusively for use in this effort. No commercial protections were used in the development of this test.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--adsense#New468--><\/p>\n<p>Do watch out for the next competition from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hackerchallenge.org\">Hacker Challenge<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad] The first round results of the Linux Reverse Engineering Hacker Challenge are out! http:\/\/www.hackerchallenge.org It was expected that an intermediate hacker with Linux experience should be able to defeat the protection(s) in less than 10 hours. Participants may earn up to $4100 USD. A total of 93 individuals registered to participate in the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,29],"tags":[1350,1348,8859,1351,231],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Darknet","author_link":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/author\/darknet\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}