On: Announcing Starfighter

[sergiotapia]

What skillset do participants have to have to play this game?

Is it purely security stuff?

[tptacek → sergiotapia]

Enjoy programming in any language.

Be fearlessly willing to pick up programming in new languages.

No security knowledge is required.

Security is a backdrop for what we're doing, but not the only backdrop; it is one of two problem domains we're starting out with.

We use security mostly as a venue for systems programming.

[errantspark → tptacek]

This has piqued my interest more than any other similar challenge/game I've seen in the past.

What's the second problem domain you're starting out with?

I hope it's to do with graphics/parallelized matrix math sort of stuff.

[tptacek → errantspark]

We'll send a reading list out to the subscriber list, sometime soon. It'll be pretty obvious from that.