AT&T Sponsors Zero-Day Hacking Contest For Kids

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Posted by timothy on Tuesday July 17, 2012 @10:19AM from the also-let's-talk-in-a-few-years dept.

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."

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$1,000 and an iPad? For one kid? Cheap bastards. (Score:4, Interesting)

by reubenavery ( 1047008 ) writes: on Tuesday July 17, 2012 @10:39AM (#40673627)

Maybe its just the cynic in me, but this seems like a real rip off. How many bugs will be discovered in total? And how much would it cost to have an actual Q/A department find those bugs?

Child labor in sheep's clothing?

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$1,000 and an iPad? For one kid? Cheap bastards. (Score:4, Interesting)

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