AT&T Sponsors Zero-Day Hacking Contest For Kids 43
yahoi writes "AT&T has teamed up with an 11-year-old hacker and DefCon Kids to host a hacking contest during the second annual conference that runs in conjunction with the adult Def Con hacker show later this month in Las Vegas. The kid who finds the most zero-day bugs in mobile apps wins $1,000 and an IPad, courtesy of DefCon Kids. The contest was inspired by the mini-hacker's discovery last year of a whole new class of mobile app vulnerabilities."
Condescending bullshit for kids. (Score:5, Informative)
They say "She found a whole new kind of exploit", and that she's found many zero-day exploits in mobile apps.
Ok. So I keep reading. Here's all of it: She changes the date on her phone so the trial lasts longer. That's it.
We've been doing that for decades. I did when I was 10 too, in DOS, and so did most of you. An entire generation changed their machine's date so we could use expired trials. We did this back in the 80's, and none of us got press as 1337 hax0rz for it.
This is the equivalent of every kid is a winner, for technology. Everyone is a computer genius at this conference, even if they can't code and all they do is play with their phone all day long and try to beat trials using a technique that's 30 years old,and that's not technical at all.