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Microsoft Programming Contest Hacked and Defaced

davidmwilliams writes "Microsoft followed their major annual Tech-Ed event in Australia with a week-long programming contest called 'DevSta,' to find 'star developers.' While the quantity and quality of submissions suggest a poor turnout, it certainly caught the attention of at least two hackers who left their mark. Here is the low-down on the contest, what happened, by whom, and screen shots for posterity in case it's been fixed by the time you read this. And unless the volume of submissions increase dramatically within the next few hours, someone may be awarded an Xbox for doing nothing more than rewriting the Windows calculator as a .NET app."<p><a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/06/2341255&from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/10/06/2341255"></a></p><p><a href="http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/06/2341255&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/nLfUSl7rv4TARhsIig1se6We0ro/a"><img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/nLfUSl7rv4TARhsIig1se6We0ro/i" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/71n7kCtBZdk" height="1" width="1"/>