Hacking for the Home Team

Stanford University is offering a class, "Hacking for Defense" that tasks student teams to tackle real-world security issues. For each problem chosen from a list submitted by several U.S. government agencies, a team not only has to formulate a solution but run it by potential users, demonstrate a minimal prototype, and figure out deployment schemes. The most common take away is that an original approach is likely to be changed once end users provide early input. See several hack problem and solution videos here.

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