Securing Microsoft: Inviting the hackers inside
A limo speeds away from Seattle's Pioneer Square carrying an unlikely party on an unusual quest.
A group of security researchers and a member of Microsoft's security response team have bonded, in search of--a haircut.
The expedition, held in September, was part of the Limo Races, a citywide scavenger hunt serving as the informal end to Blue Hat, the internal Microsoft security conference that started two years ago. The conference has become a twice-yearly event bringing some of the world's top hackers inside Microsoft's walls for two days of presentations before the software maker's executives and engineering ranks.
In the end, the team that included Microsoft's Andrew Cushman and IOActive's Dan Kaminsky failed in its mission. They found several tattoo parlors open for business, but no all-night barbers. None of them was really up for a buzz cut, anyway.
