$40,000 Hacker Contest

WIBU-Systems USA, Inc. is inviting anyone to try and break and remove their anti-piracy software from a protected sample software application.  The reward for anyone who is able to accomplish this feat is $40,000 (yes, forty thousand) dollars.

My $0.02:  Instead of rewarding people who normally cause economic harm to companies by finding ways to circumvent their intellectual property protection mechanisms, why not use the $40,000 to fund scholarships for tomorrow's information security and software engineering professionals?

InformationWeek
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196800978