“But Windows 2000 test server appears to have crashed without
any help.”
“In an attempt to burnish its tarnished reputation for network
security, Microsoft issued an open challenge on Tuesday to the
hacking community. But potential testers barely got a chance to
attempt to break Windows 2000’s security system, as the test server
Microsoft offered crashed and stayed down for most of the past 24
hours…”
“Meanwhile, the Linux community created a counter-challenge of
its own. Tuesday afternoon, LinuxPPC, the developers and
distributors of a PowerPC-native version of Linux, challenged
hackers to crack one of its servers. Unlike Microsoft, which did
not offer any kind of incentive or award to hackers, LinuxPPC is
giving the machine to the first person to break in.”