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'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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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). ...

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