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.
laughable (Score:2, Interesting)
if you can make a system like this, you can make billions in the private sector. why would you give it to DARPA for a lousy two million?
if the DoD is going to spend 12 billion a year making a jet that we dont need [wikipedia.org], why not give two billion to the group that comes up with a solid working solution? i assure you, two billion dollars will get you a hell of a lot of attention from the best people out there, with teams of hundreds of experts. a global challenge would result in a much better chance of success.
Re:$2 Million as a bait (Score:4, Interesting)
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.
Thats not really true. The votes still have to come from the people; all the funding does is get the word out.
We need real political finance reform in order to have lasting effect.
To my eyes the problem is that restricting the things an organization may say (in advertising, for example) seems to run directly afoul of the first amendment.
Seems to me youre saying you think the indirect influence of lobbying / campaign contributions has a sufficiently negative effect that it outweighs directly attacking the right of free speech. Im not really comfortable with that notion, the first amendment seems pretty core to a functioning democracy.