I've worked a lot in assembly, but never tried to exploit anything before. This is like crack. I've always been meaning to try out a few public problem sets o

I've worked a lot in assembly, but never tried to exploit anything before. This is like crack. I've always been meaning to try out a few public problem sets of this sort that a couple university security courses publish. Theirs are often based on a VM image with various binaries inside them that you are supposed to exploit. While those would probably have the advantage of being slightly more relevant to my everyday work (since they're running a Linux OS/environment more like the one I regularly use and program for), this contest makes it much easier to get over the hump of setting everything up, and of course the points/competition aspect is highly motivating. Nicely done. :)