Programming Challenges
Another one of my whacko suggestions again, Mr_Cheese.
This time I recommend a programming challenges section. This, to my opinion, will truely set the newbs from the elite.
Programming is a major component that makes or breaks a hacker. With it, they can help society or destroy it.
These challenges should be kind of like past events/competitions to code something. Kinda like coding wars. Where users can make IRC Bots, P2P Programs, Web Spiders, Fuzzers (for applications and servers), etc…
It'll also be good for HBH's reputation in the hacker committee; To show other groups that we have skill and ethics to help people, that we're not just a after exploits and payloads. After it, "it's a philosophy!".
Hope my suggestion is regarded as worthy of posting, and not redundant.
If it's just a temporary programming competition, then it's unlikely you'll get that many participants in it, if we judge by the previous competitions that have gone on here. I think it would be intersting to see something of a permanent programming challenge, although realistically I think it needs to be something along the lines of what HTS has done with their permanent programming challenges. That's because there is no telling how far this sites membership will expand at this point, and there is reason to swamp that admins of this site with application entries that have to be individually evaluated.
The competitions we have going on now though do fill most of the role that your talking about though.
I was thinking on the idea of programming challenges. They would be majorly beneficial to all hackers. It's been noted that it would very difficult for us to judge these, however i feel this could be fixed. For example, we could have it be as a automated service. We could offer it in multiple languages and have it run as follows. Have a form to enter your code, in plaintext, which would then be sent to the local server compiled and run. however, i am not saying do something like: code a port scanner and submit it…those would take forever to code and to judge and require lots of time…however, doing something more like "write the function/method/subrouten" that would do xxxx. and they submit that which is then run. Like if we made a "game of life challenge" and you had to code the live_or_die() that returned a boolean. Therefore we could simply run our code with their method and see if theirs would give the correct output. i would be willing to work towards this challenge and help code. what do ya'll think?