Microsoft Programming Contest Hacked and Defaced 151
davidmwilliams writes "Microsoft followed their major annual Tech-Ed event in Australia with a week-long programming contest called 'DevSta,' to find 'star developers.' While the quantity and quality of submissions suggest a poor turnout, it certainly caught the attention of at least two hackers who left their mark. Here is the low-down on the contest, what happened, by whom, and screen shots for posterity in case it's been fixed by the time you read this. And unless the volume of submissions increase dramatically within the next few hours, someone may be awarded an Xbox for doing nothing more than rewriting the Windows calculator as a .NET app."
Microsoft catching the attention of hackers? (Score:5, Funny)
This isn't news. If it were, it'd carry a headline like "Microsoft Programming Contest Security Thwarts Hackers" and be about how Microsoft employed some effective security measures without subjecting all applicants to activity-monitoring rootkit DRM and attendees to cavity-searches.
XBox for rewriting calc (Score:5, Funny)
Microsoft Programming Contest Hacked and Defaced (Score:5, Funny)
Was SELinux enabled? (Score:5, Funny)
rewriting the windows calculator? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:XBox for rewriting calc (Score:5, Funny)
I was going to say that :) .net calculator when you need one).
XBox is hardly enough to motivate me to load windows on any machine I own. Up next, US mint authorized silver certificate reproduction copies of the hundreds of pages of the bail out bill. This authentically signed reproduction can be yours for the small price of $850 Billion US Dollars, paid in three easy payments of (damn, where's a
Why don't they get a little more real... say MSDN subscription for life? Yeah, I suppose that is too much to give to a MS developer... sheesh
Re:XBox for rewriting calc (Score:5, Funny)
Re:rewriting the windows calculator? (Score:5, Funny)
Easier too.
Re:Microsoft catching the attention of hackers? (Score:5, Funny)
This isn't news. If it were, it'd carry a headline like "Microsoft Programming Contest Security Thwarts Hackers" and be about how Microsoft employed some effective security measures without subjecting all applicants to activity-monitoring rootkit DRM and attendees to cavity-searches.
Cavity search is news to me. Where do I sign up?
Let's See... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:XBox for rewriting calc (Score:2, Funny)
...no, actually the punishment is sending them 2 copies of Vista.
Microsoft Programming Contest Hacked... (Score:1, Funny)
2. Story posted to Slashdot and nobody cares.
3. Posting Anonymously to protect my kharma - priceless.
Re:Microsoft catching the attention of hackers? (Score:5, Funny)
where is the +1 disturbing moderation??
Obligatory (Score:5, Funny)
They are. And don't call me Shirley.
Cheers,
Ask this guy... (Score:1, Funny)
> Cavity search is news to me. Where do I sign up?
Ask Mr. Goatse. I think there's a .NET version of it now, too!
Re:Microsoft catching the attention of hackers? (Score:5, Funny)
Someone is trying to hack your contest (Cancel/Allow)?
I guess even Microsoft employees are just used to clicking 'Allow' now.
Which app would you pick off that list? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Microsoft programmers....stars? Too funny... (Score:3, Funny)
I speak from about 15 years experience at multiple companies and not bias that the more "Microsofty" the programmer is, the worse they are.
Works the same for users, too.
Re:Microsoft catching the attention of hackers? (Score:3, Funny)
Wow, that is a terrible Gadget.
Who the hell writes a metric clock without understanding the metric system?
This must be written by that 13 year old who painted "Anarchy Rules" on my garage door.
Re: Disturbing? Nah. (Score:5, Funny)
He clearly means Dentistry software. Manage the patient's records, search cavities...
Re:Microsoft programmers....stars? Too funny... (Score:2, Funny)
they designed a Windows Registry as an interface to the database on Linux.
So wait, let me get this straight... these people know both Windows *and* Linux so well that they wrote a Windows Registry for Linux, rather than cutting the bullshit and using SQL?
That sounds very... irresponsible.
Re:Let me be the first to say (Score:5, Funny)
In other news, Alanis Morissette is found posting on Slashdot under the name 'db32'.
Re:Obligatory (Score:5, Funny)
Looks like I picked the wrong week to ditch C#.
Re:Google: $10M in prizes, MS: an XBox (Score:3, Funny)
Google doesn't have an IDE with a built in application creator wizard.
An Xbox sounds pretty cool if all I have to do is
Project -> New
Select "calculator" from list, next
Select radial button "scientific", next
Checkbox a few skins and an include contentless help-pages, next
Hit Create
Run it, accept the EULA
Hello Xbox.
Re:HACKED BY BENJYMOUSE (Score:4, Funny)
A hacker known by the name BENJYMOUSE has today been arrested for defacing a popular news site. The 2 SWAT teams were deemed necessary as hackers are known to be armed and dangerouse and usualy in company of muslim terrorists. Only 2400 rounds were fired and a mere 25 bystanders were killed. Rumors that the terrorist-hacker was playing a loud videogame instead of firing his as yet undiscovered arsenal of weapons show that these terrorists are not just evil, but also lazy.
The hacker will be put on trail for possesion of illegal invisible weapons of mass destruction.
just submitted to the slashdot story queue (Score:4, Funny)
commodoresloat writes "Slashdot followed their major annual asteroid-collision article with an article called 'Microsoft Programming Contest Hacked and Defaced.' While the quantity and quality of posts suggest a poor turnout, it certainly caught the attention of a hacker named 'BENJYMOUSE' who left his mark. Here is the low-down on the slashdot post, what happened, by whom, and screen shots for posterity in case it's been fixed by the time you read this. And unless the quality of posts increase dramatically within the next few hours, someone may be awarded mod points for doing nothing more than rewriting the *BSD troll as an anti-M$ post."
Re:Obligatory (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Obligatory (Score:3, Funny)
Oh, right. It's Oveur at System.Collections.Generic.List
Re:DevSta? Seriously? (Score:3, Funny)
Star development really should become an engineering job and I don't think that Microsoft will be happy with talent they just pick up from the street. That's just going to lead to mediocrity at best.
!hacked (Score:2, Funny)
Had I known it were news, I'd have contacted local news media rather than the modest response of contacting my web hosting provider and asking that they patch the vulnerability in their SQL server.