Re: [TCLUG:13809] Munny where yer mouf is

[Nate Carlson <natecars@real-time.com>]

On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Christopher Palmer wrote:
> Chris McKinley and I were talking on IRC (join us!) about how fun and
> instructive a *tightly constrained and moderated* local cracking contest
> would be. It would give people here (all of us admins, to some extent)
> some real-world, hands-on (and best of all, legal and non-damaging)
> experience with the insecurity of our Linux (and other) systems.
> 
> One person could put up a box and offer a challenge. The crack would be
> prize enough, I think, but also we could all pitch some money in a pool
> and offer a physical prize for the crack. Kind of like the Linux/PPC crack
> from a while back.
> 
> Any takers? It'd be fun!!

sure, i'll dig out a dx4/120 mb+cpu, some memory, and a hard drive
sometime and throw it up on my dsl connection on a public ip if nobody
else feels like building a pc... install debian, secure it, and then post
the root password on a web server on the box.  :)

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