Wired is running a story about Jim Christy’s annual trip to DefCon, the annual underground hacker convention. Christy, as director of the Defense Cyber Crime Center, or DC3, does double duty at DefCon. He’s on the lookout for bad guys, of course, but he’s also scouting the talent and doing some recruitment for DC3.
Taking a page from DARPA’s grand challenge book, Christy announced at the August DefCon the DC3 Forensics Challenge: 12 digital forensic problems covering everything from media recovery to keylog cracking to steganography to cracking passwords. Winners got a free trip to Christy's annual DOD Cyber Crime Conference. More than 130 teams signed up. Winners were announced in December. From the DC3 Challenge page you can see the list of winners, but not the answers.
According to Wired, among the greater benefits to the challenge is that it “introduced Christy to universities and research groups across the country that, before last August, had no idea DC3 existed. Now many want to be his partner.â€
That's growing the network.
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