New card game based on computer security
Offline 'Control-Alt-Hack' Game Lets Players Try Their Hand at Computer Security
ScienceDaily (July 24, 2012) — Do you have what it takes to be an ethical hacker? Can you step into the shoes of a professional paid to outsmart supposedly locked-down systems?
Now you can at least try, no matter what your background, with a new card game developed by University of Washington computer scientists.
"Control-Alt-Hack" gives teenage and young-adult players a taste of what it means to be a computer-security professional defending against an ever-expanding range of digital threats. The game's creators will present it this week in Las Vegas at Black Hat 2012, an annual information-security meeting.
"Hopefully players will come away thinking differently about computer security," said creator Yoshi Kohno, a UW associate professor of computer science and engineering.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120724161014.htm
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Now how can I convince them I am an education person and get a license?
I would enjoy playing that. $30 while supplies last? What technology is this based on...1980? Will they run out of floppy disks?
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Yeah, I wondered that, too. Maybe it is the number of cd's - they don't want to have that many copies out or they don't want to be in the business of cd copying. And all those labels --- one wonders why it just isn't made downloadable from one of the mirror sites - ZDNet or somewhere.
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It's a card game.
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I have Pretty Good Solitaire, it's a card game. Has over 500 solitaire games. It runs very nicely on my computer. I didn't get that this one was actual printed-on-cardboard cards. Sheeze......
[edit to make my meaning more clear - I hope]
-- I feel so much better since I stopped trying to believe.
"We are entitled to our own opinions. We're not entitled to our own facts"- Al Franken
"If death isn't sweet oblivion, I will be severely disappointed" - Ruth M.
I was just sayin > >
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