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Date: Tue Apr 03 2001 - 03:01:21 CDT

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Forwarded by: Daniel River Phoenix <phoenix_danhotmail.com>

Actually about 50 people cracked the challenge...everytime they broke
root the admin rebooted the server to patch it. You really think they
thought they would have to "give" out the money. It was all crap from
the start....i personally cracked the solaris machine and he rebooted
it 5 min after. I gave up even after talking with him personally
saying he would never do such a thing yet anytime anyone got close
servers magically went down. Was just a big scam for advertising is
all i think.

> http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,42747,00.html
>
> by Michelle Delio
> 10:10 a.m. Mar. 30, 2001 PST
>
> A hacker is claming that he has won Argus' ballyhooed OpenHack III
> competition by cracking its much-vaunted PitBull security system.
>
> Argus concedes the crack, but isn't awarding the promised big cash
> prize.
>
> Systems running Argus' PitBull were offered up as a challenge to
> hackers in the OpenHack III competition in February. During the
> contest, 40,000 people attempted to crack the system and were
> unsuccessful.
>
> The same challenge was offered at the European technology
> conference CeBit this week. This time, one person says he was able
> to crack the system. But he evidently missed the deadline.
>
> A hacker calling himself Bladez won't receive the 3,000 ($4,250)
> prize offered by Argus because he says he misunderstood what time
> the competition ended and was under the impression that he had a
> few hours left to work.

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