Hacking is allowed within the bounds of the NZ Cyber Security Challenge. Pictured from left are James Baker, Sivaram Manoharan and Christian Richardson at the event, hosted at the University of Waikato on July 14 and 15.
A Hamilton teenager hacks into his school’s computer all the time.
“They sorta don’t mind it now,” James Baker said. “I tell them what to fix.”
The Year 13 Hamilton Boys’ High School student recently took on a different kind of hacking challenge at the University of Waikato.
He and teammates Sivaram Manoharan and Christian Richardson competed in the NZ Cyber Security Challenge on July 14 and 15.
They named their team JustTiltEm, a reference to the computer gaming term tilting, where you try to win computer games by annoying your opponents to distraction.
JustTiltEm couldn’t really tilt at the challenge, though, because interacting with opponents is against the rules.
It was even against the rules to look at an opponent’s computer. And, of course, it’s against the rules to hack into the scoreboard, too. For the full article click here
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