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In the United States, from April 18 to May 12 Another hacking competition for hacking Pentagon sites. True, this time the Americans approached him more modestly and in terms of selection applicants, and in terms of remuneration.
The prize pool is one hundred fifty thousand dollars, although Hack the Pentagon organizers still not voiced specific prize sizes. It is only said that they will depend “on a number of factors, “while classified, but winners get their money won no later than July 10th.
Only U.S. citizens are allowed to compete. who are not stained by serious violations of the law or manifestation of terrorism. Anyone who passes the selection will be US Department of Defense sites available on the web, but which ones while this is also kept secret.
Attracting outside hackers, Secretary of War Ashton notes Carter, will help identify weaknesses in the “digital defense” Pentagon, and ultimately strengthen national security countries. The reasons for this decision were the increasing hacker attacks to the websites of the US military by foreign hackers, especially Chinese and Russian.
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Internet users almost unanimously agreed that Americans waste time and throw money away. For in order to find holes in the Pentagon’s computer network, it’s necessary to attract to the competition just those hackers who are capable of it hack, that is, Russians and Chinese, Japanese and South Koreans, not law-abiding boys from their own country. However, the military, of course, will attract both Russians and Chinese, having American citizenship, but this is unlikely to change, because for the same patriot his homeland Russian or Chinese hack site The Pentagon is not “mundane earnings of stinky dollars,” but Flight of fancy and creative burning. And the amount of “fee” for such work is determined too low …
Therefore, users of the World Wide Web predict that already in the summer when the Pentagon will summarize the competition of American hackers and based on the data “will strengthen its computer network “, we should expect attacks of real world bison, which try to prove to the Pentagon leadership that avaricious pays twice, and the fool always remains in the fools …
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