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August 13, 2007, 03:08 PM ET
Repeat Champions at 'Capture the Flag'
Chalk yet another title up to the University of Florida. Fresh off its victory in a robot-submarine design contest (and those football and basketball championships, too), the institution has earned a piece of first place in one of the world’s most prestigious hacking competitions.
Jordan Wiens and John H. Sawyer, both network-security engineers at Florida, were part of a nine-person team that took top honors at Capture the Flag, a fast-paced battle in which eight teams attempt to defend their own computer servers while compromising the machines of their opponents. The game — which is one of the highlights of Defcon, an annual convention for hackers — is an Olympic decathlon of sorts for computer coders and security experts.
And Mr. Wiens and Mr. Sawyer are building quite a reputation for themselves. Their team — known, appropriately enough, as 1@stplace — won the event in 2006, and this year they made it two victories in a row. —Brock Read
Categories: Security
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