Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Tech's Tiger Teams

Just caught this on /. and couldn't pass it up...the original article is called Finding security's next 'American Idol'.

The basic idea is to have a competition to search for security technology that is simple to use and easy to understand. Congratulations to the three Tiger Team winners!

The article includes some sound bytes from Keith Edwards (one of my colleagues at Tech the first time I went through and is now a prof.) and Mustaque Ahamad one of my past and present professors and the head of the Information Security Center at Tech.

Some of the comments on slashdot are rather humorous... I like this one:
At 69 cents for the 'good' Ramen (Maruchian), $50K would buy 72463 grad student meals. That's enough to feed 66 grad students 3 meals a day for a year!!

And this one:
Georgia Tech College of Computing, Information Security Center and Graphics, Visualization and Usability Center
what's that, the GTCOCISCGVUC
... geeks, learn to be succinct!

Kipp

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