The Dirty Secret Behind the Salesforce $1M Hackathon

Now for a real (non-rigged) competition judged on merit:

https://dtsn.darpa.mil/cybergrandchallenge/CyberGrandChallen...

• 1st place: $2,000,000

• 2nd place: $1,000,000

• 3rd place: $750,000

Good luck writing a service that prevents shell-code injection and actively patches executables after realizing RCE has taken place...All without source code.. That's why the prizes are so big. You can pretty much stake a billion-dollar company on an IDS system that versatile.