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Hacking Contest Promotes Security
« on: August 06, 2003, 10:58:40 AM »
In Las Vegas eight teams of hackers are fighting eachother in a hacking contest. In a 'Capture the Flag' kinda game, the teams try to defend there own server and attack the ones of their adversaries.

"This sort of adversarial testing shows what is possible--and not--with security," said Crispin Cowan, chief scientist at Linux security seller Immunix and the leader of the Immunix team. "We value this competition, because we think it is a better evaluation of security than common criteria."

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