Mozilla Blog: The #HackWEEKDAY Contest at #HITB2012AMS
At the end of last May, Mozilla sponsored the HackWEEKDAY contest at the third annual Hack In the Box conference in the Netherlands. The contest ran alongside the rest of the HITB conference which featured presentations on security topics including new iPhone jailbreaks and a second day key note from Bruce Schneier.
Lucas Adamski and myself travelled from San Francisco to Amsterdam where we met up with Christian Holler and Frederik Braun, a former Mozilla security intern. Both Christian and Freddy are based in Germany, so it was good to be able to and catch up with them in Europe and hear about Christian’s current projects and Freddy’s Masters degree research on web browser security.
The HackWEEKDAY contest goal was pretty simple : write an Firefox add-on related to security. The contest had previously been run at an earlier HITB conference in Malaysia, where Gary Kwong was Mozilla’s representative. I made sure to talk to Gary before leaving for the conference and got some great insights into what to expect. Additionally, I took his suggestion to bring along lots of Firefox swag! The prize to be awarded for creating the best add-on, judged by a panel of Mozilla and HITB representatives, was 1337 euros.
