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It’s official: Hacking has been gamified |
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Source: Washington Post - Posted by Alex
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To the uninitiated, hacker culture commands a mysterious allure. It’s a world filled with shadowy aliases and technical jargon. In this secret underground, libertarian warriors — or infantile nihilists, depending on your point of view — plot the capture of corporate data centers and attacks on government agencies.
That world, long inaccessible to the general public, is about to open up. Enter rankmyhack.com, a Web site claiming to be the hacker community’s “first elite hacker ranking system.” If it takes off, the system could intensify the race to perform high-profile exploits, encourage a new generation of hackers to pick up the trade or raise the overall likelihood of future cyber-attacks.
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