DARPA Issues $2mil Cyber Grand Challenge 67
First time accepted submitter Papa Fett writes "DARPA announced the Cyber Grand Challenge (CGC)--the first-ever tournament for fully automatic network defense systems. International teams will compete to build systems that reason about software flaws, formulate patches and deploy them on a network in real time. Teams would be scored against each other based on how capably their systems can protect hosts, scan the network for vulnerabilities, and maintain the correct function of software. The winning team would receive a cash prize of $2 million , with second place earning $1 million and third place taking home $750,000." Also at Slashcloud.
$2 Million as a bait (Score:5, Insightful)
Darpa's intention is not to build a secured system, but rather, finding fresh international talents to enable NSA to break more systems all over the world.
I am an American, and it is not that I do not trust my own country.
I do trust my country.
I simply have lost all trust to my own government.
Re:$2 Million as a bait (Score:5, Insightful)
In other words, you have absolute trust in your government to misbehave.
No.
I have absolute confidence that as long as lobbyist's intentions are to fight for private entities to maximize revenue streams as the #1 priority at all times, it will all but guarantee absolute corruption, which is what we have today.
You're kidding yourself if you think Congress runs the show around here. They are the lobbyist's bitch.
Re:Two million? (Score:4, Insightful)
Chump change for a project like this. No one with the skills to build a good solution will give it away for two million.
Who said give it away? They'll probably take the 2,000,000 then sell the system as the "DARPA Cyber Challenge winner". There is no requirement for the software to be free or open source.
Egads! "build systems that reason" ??? (Score:3, Insightful)
If you could "build systems that reason" you'd be able to get a whole lot more than $2mil - why would anyone divulge this technology to the government when they could license it to Google, Apple, Microsoft, IBM, and everyone else? If I had this technology, my first stop would be the patent office and I would patent it out the wazoo and start licensing it. If the government wants it, they can get in line.
Re:$2 Million as a bait (Score:5, Insightful)
As a respresentative democracy, the government is who we vote in. However, as long as billionaires and their corporations control political funding, there is no chance that we will be able to vote in people that can make a real difference. It also does not help that they fund polarizing news organizations that discourages debate and promotes ridgid ideological agendas.
Overthrowing the government is useless. Any new government that forms will immediately be under the influence of vested interests. We need real political finance reform in order to have lasting effect.