E-mail Firm Baits Hackers With Security Challenge

KingFishKingFish
edited September 2004 in Science & Tech
A small British e-mail company is lining itself up for a possible challenge by inviting Internet users to break into its product.
Avecho has offered $18,056 (10,000 pounds) to anyone who can sneak a virus past its GlassWall product, and it has even opened up the challenge to its developers. "Lots of people have already tried to do this," said Mark Elliott, vice president of international marketing for Avecho. "I think this is something we are able to do. The only condition is that people must be willing for us to publicize their failure as well as their success." In order to take part, contestants need to sign up for an Avecho e-mail account and then send a virus to that address or try to receive one from it. If the virus gets through, the contestant will win the prize, Elliott said.
Source: ZDNet

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  • EMTEMT Seattle, WA Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    That's pretty cool! I hope it also must allow anything that doesn't contain a virus.
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