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Okay, so based on the overwhelming feedback that I am a douchebag and should just leave the damn contest alone, OTB will be back to the same format as last year, more or less.
To wit:
Some changes, which I hope are minor tweaks:
Change Number The First:
I will send you a new token, every five minutes, somehow, and you need to accept it. SMTP mail, FTPs, SFTP, HTTP POST/GET, echo port, wrapped inside a steganographic MPEG rickroll, whatev. Doesn't matter. Send me the specs and I will make it work.
Why? Because this means defenders have to have a working service of some kind. As I've said, without this, it's just too damn easy to run a chroot'd qotd and fingerd inside a VM and say "FUCK YOU ALL! I AM INVINCIBLE!!!!"
So yes, you have a little homework. But not much.
Change Number The Second:
Nobody seemed to really want boxes, at the end of the day. If you're like me you have a stack of Trash80s and six or eight Crays in various states of disrepair in your basement already, so who needs more?
So, as stated in another thread, we'll be going for cold hard cash for defenders instead. Put in $20 or more, and the top defender or attacker, scored on number of successful transactions or owns, walks away with the cash as a tab at the Splash bar.
Sound reasonable? There's one other little nugget, but I'm saving it for a bit, after I rewrite the site again. =)
To wit:
- Bring a box, running some network-enabled services.
- A token will live in a directory readable by the service.
- Providing the token to contest organizers = own.
Some changes, which I hope are minor tweaks:
Change Number The First:
I will send you a new token, every five minutes, somehow, and you need to accept it. SMTP mail, FTPs, SFTP, HTTP POST/GET, echo port, wrapped inside a steganographic MPEG rickroll, whatev. Doesn't matter. Send me the specs and I will make it work.
Why? Because this means defenders have to have a working service of some kind. As I've said, without this, it's just too damn easy to run a chroot'd qotd and fingerd inside a VM and say "FUCK YOU ALL! I AM INVINCIBLE!!!!"
So yes, you have a little homework. But not much.
Change Number The Second:
Nobody seemed to really want boxes, at the end of the day. If you're like me you have a stack of Trash80s and six or eight Crays in various states of disrepair in your basement already, so who needs more?
So, as stated in another thread, we'll be going for cold hard cash for defenders instead. Put in $20 or more, and the top defender or attacker, scored on number of successful transactions or owns, walks away with the cash as a tab at the Splash bar.
Sound reasonable? There's one other little nugget, but I'm saving it for a bit, after I rewrite the site again. =)
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