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Hacking Challenge: Change this website's homepage picture and win $10K...

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Re: Hacking Challenge: Change this website's homepage picture and win $10K...

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Post by mattwdelong »

Eyalush wrote: post #2

Posted 4 min ago but its already hacked. I guess that should have been expected when you challenge hackers like that.

Also possible that the traffic generated resulted in the server crashing. I guess, time will tell.

Re: Hacking Challenge: Change this website's homepage picture and win $10K...

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Post by Pahalial »

Wow. I was prepared to denounce this as a fake, mouthpiece for LulzSec made to look like a hacking challenge (for the lulz), etc. A facebook page like this[1] is so laughably over the top.. But perhaps not:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ywUK2Jat5k

Now I just feel a bit sorry for him. A very fast lesson to not consider yourself "trained by the best in the world" or go around putting up $10k prizes like this without actually having a few crises under your belt.

[1] https://www.facebook.com/blackandberg

Re: Hacking Challenge: Change this website's homepage picture and win $10K...

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Post by alnayyir »

Pahalial wrote: post #6

Wow. I was prepared to denounce this as a fake, mouthpiece for LulzSec made to look like a hacking challenge (for the lulz), etc. A facebook page like this[1] is so laughably over the top.. But perhaps not: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ywUK2Jat5k Now I just feel a bit sorry for him. A very fast lesson to not consider yourself "trained by the best in the world" or go around putting up $10k prizes like this without…

He has a bachelors in "Information Security" from ITT Tech.

For those who aren't familiar, ITT Tech is, at least in the midwest, where the stoners go after getting their GED (remedial high school diploma for people who couldn't hack it in...secondary...) because they realized minimum wage jobs don't go very far once you're paying your own rent.

The raw hubris of this video and his reasons for it are...overwhelming.

I'm left feeling assured about my future job prospects, and unhappy at the state of things.

Re: Hacking Challenge: Change this website's homepage picture and win $10K...

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Post by chrislomax »

Anyone think this might be his way of calling the hackers out and try and get some logged information about them?

I probably am way off mark here but do you think there is a chance he was running some monitoring software on the server tracking their every move.

As someone stated, would you really stake $10k when you are running proprietary software that the world has open source access to??

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