- F-Secure is planning one of the largest demo parties in the world at Assembly 2006.
"We've been demo fans for years and years and we're really glad to be organizing a competition as part of this year's assembly," F-Secure research director Mikko Hyppönen told p2pnet.
As part of it's sponsorship, the company is organizing the Reverse Engineering Challenge Compo, "a competition where the target is to decode programs in order to find hidden information," says F-Secure. "It consists of three Windows EXE files written by one mystery researcher working in the F-Secure Security Labs."
When the programs are run, they'll ask the user for a password and, "Give the correct password, and you then get instructions on how to find the next challenge. The goal is to solve all three challenges. The first ones to complete the challenges will win an iPod or a PSP – See Assembly's website."
Not only but also, "Obviously we will try recruiting the best code breakers we find during this competition," Hyppönen told us, adding, "However, people in this field are much sought after so it's always not that simple."
The F-Secure comp will be open to everyone with details (including the name of the mystery author) coming soon.
For now, the event is slated to take place in Helsinki between August 3 and 6.
