Olympics Hacker: Educate Japanese Government Business Hacker

Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) will hold an Olympic "Computer Security Champhionship" (security-shi kou-en) is the first in Japan.

According to METI, Olympic aims to find and educate the young seedlings that have knowledge of techniques and computer hacking. This race will be held with the mechanisms by which these Olympic participants will be selected from high schools and vocational schools throughout Japan, numbering as many as 20 teams.

Each team will try to enter the server tough opponent team. These winners will be rewarded in the form of opportunities to study abroad to America, such as the Carnegie Mellon University Dartmouth College or to the United States. According to METI, also held similar contests by many other countries, but only this time held by the government of a country.

According to research data, Japan's software imports in the year 2000 as many as 920 billion yen, while exports of Japanese software only for 9 billion yen. Therefore, the Olympic status is important to collect seeds in the field of computers, to educate them abroad, and ultimately will strengthen Japan's competitiveness in the field of computers.

These Olympics will be held at a hotel in Tokyo in August of 2003, and registration will begin from the month of June 2003. One team consists of 3 persons, all initially servers have security holes (security holes). Each team must try to close the security holes and strengthen their servers. At the same time they also must try to find security holes opponent, came in and took over control of the server opponent.