While researching this week's topics to do my assignments, I ran into a competition called Pwn2Own. It's a hacking contest held every year in which contestants are given a device to hack into, and if they manage to "pwn" the device, they get to keep it. I love this idea of ethical hacking for the fun of it on the world stage. It allows corporations working on new software to bring it into the competition and have the contestants find vulnerabilities in them for prizes. It's a win-win for both parties since the corporations get a first-hand look at vulnerabilities in their software or hardware so that they can patch them before the service goes live, and the contestants get to win prizes like money. It's been happening since 2007, and I am excited to check it out next year.
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