'Hacking Challenge' Winners Allege $43,000 Contest Rip-Off

'Hacking Challenge' Winners Allege $43,000 Contest Rip-Off
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2002-11-26

Eighteen months after Argus Systems challenged the hacker world to crack its PitBull security product in a much-ballyhooed global contest, the winners say they're still waiting for their prize money.

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'Hacking Challenge' Winners Allege $43,000 Contest Rip-Off 2002-11-26
Can I still buy a PitBull beanie dog?

'Hacking Challenge' Winners Allege $43,000 Contest Rip-Off 2002-11-26
Anonymous

Î hope we get updated when they receive the money 2002-11-26
Anonymous

'Hacking Challenge' Winners Allege $43,000 Contest Rip-Off 2002-11-26
Anonymous

'Hacking Challenge' Winners Allege $43,000 Contest Rip-Off 2002-11-26
Mark Litchfield

'Hacking Challenge' Winners Allege $43,000 Contest Rip-Off 2002-11-26
Me (1 replies)

'Hacking Challenge' Winners Allege $43,000 Contest Rip-Off 2002-11-27
Anonymous (1 replies)

'Hacking Challenge' Winners Allege $43,000 Contest Rip-Off 2002-12-03
Anonymous (1 replies)

'Hacking Challenge' Winners Allege $43,000 Contest Rip-Off 2002-12-05
Anonymous

'Hacking Challenge' Winners Allege $43,000 Contest Rip-Off 2002-11-26
Anonymous

'Hacking Challenge' Winners Allege $43,000 Contest Rip-Off 2002-11-27
dbc011

Give them a break! 2002-11-27
Anonymous (2 replies)

Give them a break! 2002-11-28
Anonymous

Give them a break! 2002-12-04
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'Hacking Challenge' Winners Allege $43,000 Contest Rip-Off 2002-11-27
Anonymous

'Hacking Challenge' Winners Allege $43,000 Contest Rip-Off 2002-11-28
Anonymous

A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do - WHERE'S YOUR HONOR? 2002-11-28
JC

'Hacking Challenge' Winners Allege $43,000 Contest Rip-Off 2002-11-28
GOBBLES (2 replies)

'Hacking Challenge' Winners Allege $43,000 Contest Rip-Off 2002-12-03
TW

'Hacking Challenge' Winners Allege $43,000 Contest Rip-Off 2002-12-03
Jeff Moss

'Hacking Challenge' Winners Allege $43,000 Contest Rip-Off 2002-12-03
John Riley

I guess they should be glad Argus didn't turn around and nail them under the DMCA! 2002-12-04
Anonymous (1 replies)

Re: I guess they should be glad Argus didn't turn around and nail them under the DMCA! 2006-06-01
Anonymous

'Hacking Challenge' Winners Allege $43,000 Contest Rip-Off 2002-12-04
Aquavulvaman

I won Infosecurity Asia 99 hacking contest and they ripped me off too 2002-12-04
Anonymous

I won their contest by compromising an NT server but then they took it offline, said it was the "wrong configuration", put it back online patched against my exploit. A reporter Robin Miller picked up my story at techsightings.com (now defunct and web.archive.org doesn't seem to have my articles). Never recieved a penny.

I don't trust these hacking contests.

Smarties will invest their time and energy into personal research or wargames labs.

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