The spirit of this is great, since tech companies have been welcoming hackers for years via bounty programs. However, from the article -- The contest is only fo

The spirit of this is great, since tech companies have been welcoming hackers for years via bounty programs. However, from the article -- The contest is only for "vetted hackers" -- that is a little sketchy. Just doesn't seem like the same folks who hack systems for a living would be open to months-long scrutiny of DoD. Also, I wonder how many of those willing would actually "pass"? Furthermore, "hackers will target a predetermined system that's not part of its critical operations" -- that's great, but what's the point? Why would somebody, smart, ambitious, clever, and extremely good at what they do, work on hacking a system that isn't even critical to the nation's operations? "Last summer, the Office of Personnel Management revealed that the private information of more than 20 million U.S. government workers and others had been stolen in a massive security breach." -- Personally, if you recruit top of the line security experts to help you with problems like these, I would hope the first thing they work on would be problems like this. Good intentions, definitely, but curious to see what the community here has to say.