America's NSA Challenges Students With A Codebreaking Competition, Then Recruits Them

This year America's National Security Agency (NSA) is once again "developing a cyber challenge and daring more than 330 schools and 2,600 students to solve it," writes Federal News Network Slashdot reader eatvegetables shares their report: The NSA keeps a leaderboard ranking the participating colleges. (Last year Oregon State had over 100 students participating.) The 2018 challenge is still online , Bryant says, "and there are people who are working and submitting solutions."

Source: Slashdot.org

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