TIM BRYANT AND Brian Knudson spent two years preparing for the Cyber Grand Challenge, a $55 million hacking contest cooked up by Darpa, the visionary research operation inside the U.S. Defense Department. But when the contest begins next Thursday evening in a ballroom at the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas, Darpa won't let them participate.
That's because the contest pits code against code. It's a battle of autonomous systems designed to identify security holes in software programs they've never encountered—and patch those holes on the fly. Working with others at defense contractor Raytheon, Bryant and Knudson spent those two years building such a system.
Today, contest organizers will roll a supercomputer into the Paris Hotel that includes the latest version of Raytheon's creation, and once that happens, Bryant, Knudson, and the rest of the ten-person team, dubbed Deep Red, can't guide their system or change it in any way. They become bystanders—like the rest of us. They'll fly into Vegas, take a seat in the ballroom, and see what happens.
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https://www.wired.com/2016/07/securi...hacking-crown/
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Seems like Library of congress give them exempt for the research.. That is very interesting.