http://online.securityfocus.com/news/1717'Hacking Challenge' Winners Allege $43,000 Contest Rip-Off
Eighteen months after Argus Systems challenged the hacker world to crack its PitBull security product in a much-ballyhooed global contest, the winners say they're still waiting for their prize money.
By Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus Nov 26 2002 12:05AM
It must have seemed a masterstroke of marketing genius at the time. A formerly-obscure security software company organizes a series of high-profile contests aimed at showing that even with a sizable cash prize dangling as a reward, the world's best hackers can't crack a Web server protected by the company's flagship product.
The only problem: the world's best hackers did just that.