Hey,

Just wanted to follow-up on the hacking contest that I might
have run to help improve security.  I decided not to do so.

The final clincher was this... the hacking contest was supposed
to help increase overall security, by creating the possibility
for exposing system exploits before we went "live".  The idea was
to then patch up these vulnerabilities and have a more secure 
system.

This logic was defeated in the end by the notion that a good hacker
with any decent exploit would not reveal that prize exploit.  
So I would have to simply trash whatever exploited system I had 
with alternative systems.  The latter system would probably have 
even more exploits than the original system, as the original one
was the best that I could find to begin with (longest history, etc.)

Finally then, what would be an attempt to increase security, would 
actually decrease it in a worst case scenario of someone "winning".
If no one won, then nothing would be proved, and a bunch of time
wasted.

Thanks all for you feedback.  Its was good to air out the pros and
cons about this issue.  The above conclusion I came to did involve
those opinions, and I am only trying to express the "clincher"
that pushed me not to run with the contest.

--Joshua
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