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We will add a $10,000 bounty for the first published and confirmed successful completion of this challenge.

Conditions:

1) CloudFlare confirms success.

2) The winner publishes their solution, including source, publicly.

3) Promptly send the link to the publication to [adam | ionicsecurity | com] (for tracking the order of submissions)

Good luck!

I knew Autumn years ago. She was a brilliant individual with a deep connection to those around her. This is a loss of a tremendously capable, and compassionate, human being.

Speaking as a omnivore I found the content of this article to be quite useful. That said, Octopii are indeed very special creatures for many reasons one of which is they do in fact serve well as the main ingredient in multiple dishes.

Until the pledge system is fixed we (Ionic Security) will pledge here. To get this ball moving a bit faster we pledge $10,000 USD.

Email in profile for confirmation.

To anyone from Fundfill.com: I've tried pledging and authenticating via FB connect in both FF and Chrome with errors rendered with every attempt. The login screen hangs (stays visible) and yet the upper right says I'm logged in.

In either case, I'm unable to pledge using FB connect. Please advise.

For every investment made most firms hold at least 2x that amount in reserves for future rounds.

No need for the GPU cluster to be in range. A mobile device with 4G can communicate with a networked GPU cluster at speeds fast enough to pipe the data needed.

I'm interested. What is the best way to get in touch?

I've actually tried this game out and it is very clean. Good work sprite. What was the most challenging part of the app development process?

Hi there,

That is optional for the winner(s) :)

However, our company actually does have some of the foremost information security experts as investors (Founders / CTOs / CEOs of PGP Corp, Internet Security Systems, CipherTrust, PureWire, NitroSecurity among others).

We also work closely with some of the leading researchers at the leading engineering universities in the area of cyber security.

Always open to suggestion regarding the structure of the overall process for an event such as this!

Thank you.

My company will sponsor $5,000 for the best idea submission for mitigation techniques against these types of systems. Any suggestion on the best service to use host this / receive submissions?

We will:

1) Open source all submitted ideas.

2) Let the community choose the top 5 and we will hold an internal review process for the top spot.

3) Fly the winner(s) to our office in Atlanta, GA to discuss the winning submission in details with some of the top information security experts in the world.

4) Work to get press around the winning idea.

5) If we get north of 50 submissions we will help seed (with an additional $5,000) an IndieGoGo campaign to see the idea developed.

Email me (adam | socialfortress.com) or respond here to discuss.

A nice non-technical overview of the problem. I'm not affiliated with Deloitte.

Interested in joining a fast growing venture + industry titan(s) backed Information Security startup that is changing cyber security and information privacy the world over?

Although there may not be games to reverse engineer (where I got my start 14 years ago as well) there are plenty of other equally fun applications of this skill set. :)

I'm the founder and currently on a plane but if you email adam (a t) socialfortress com we will get back promptly.

We are co-hosting a hackathon this weekend in Atlanta, GA. The event is completely free (including all food/drinks) and is being thrown by Social Fortress and Triple Threat Strategies (big data) with zero vendors.

If you're in the area and not looking to get caught up in the memorial day travel rush please come on by!

You can learn more about Flashpoint here:

http://flashpoint.gatech.edu/about/faqs/

Some recent press around the first cohort:

http://mashable.com/2012/01/27/flashpoint-demo-entrepreneurs...

http://www.xconomy.com/new-york/2012/01/19/georgia-startups-...

http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/10/georgia-techs-flashpoint-ac...

We participated in the first cohort and believe tremendous value was gained during the process. Feel free to ask any questions in this thread.

I'm 24 (soon to be 25) I grew up in the 90's

Agreed

I agree that the chance they thought this (US Govt. terrorizing their own citizens) is what would happen is slim. However, their goal of wanting to hurt the US population / Government in a significant way was far more successful than they could ever imagine.

The additional intervention in the middle east was a given either way so I don't think that can be looked at as a loss for them.

The terrorist in the USA won a long time ago. The unfortunate lives lost on September 11th will never be forgotten and the wars fought over them won't either.

Sadly, the freedoms lost because of these events set back the Unites States many many decades. I remember growing up a proud US citizen who was happy to be patriotic because my country stood for the right things for the right reasons.

Now, I'm ashamed. My country took a head first dive into the quick sand of ignorance and fear even though there were countless, larger than life, signs warning us it was right there.

To my fellow citizen, and the rest of the word, I'm sorry America is no longer the beacon of freedom it once was.

You should check out CodeGuard[1]. It is a great tool for issues just like this.

[1] https://www.codeguard.com/

I would like to point out that hasn't stopped them in the past[1][2]

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/01/us/01nsa.html

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThinThread

http://feedbackarmy.com/ and http://www.usertesting.com/

After

"Great entrepreneurs don’t just have a Plan B, they have Plans B through ∞" - Steve Blank

I've heard the 3rd one a few times.

One I've never heard:

We were an overnight success.

While I'm not currently at liberty to discuss the specifics a start-up I'm involved with, Social Fortress[1], is working with several human rights organizations to implement aspects of our technology for the purpose of allowing individuals to communicate privately, using open communication channels, without having to fear that their government can see / access the content of those communications.

To answer your question directly:

Find a problem that affects people of all 'levels' of society and do your best everyday to solve for it.

[1] https://www.socialfortress.com - The site is sparse on technical information but expect that to change in the coming weeks. Any specific questions can be directed to feedback@socialfortress.com

I agree with you completely. However, in a Democratic government the decision to limit the freedom of your citizens shouldn't be made based on how easy it is for you to do but whether or not it is the right thing to do.

It's not the fact that infrastructure gets shut down it's the reason and scope.

No Snail-mail on Sunday is unrelated to people using it for illegal purposes.

Public roads being shut down, even for crime fighting efforts, is not the same as 'shutting down' Facebook or Twitter for your citizens. The proper analogy would be 'Someone was hit by a drunk driver and we believe more drunk drivers will illegally use the road so no one is allowed to drive on any roads for any reason.'

I up voted your comment, however:

Drug dealers, Pedophiles and terrorist all use email, cell phones, public roads and snail-mail to organize, and conduct, their illegal activities. Is it a realistic reaction to consider shutting each of these down every time there is a new conviction?