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Everyone here seems sure that "Black & Berg" is an actual security company that issued a challenge and actually intended to pay someone money. Does anyone have any independent sources on that?

Just from the look of the site, it seems so much like a farcical joke on HBGary-type companies, I wonder if it's not a viral marketing campaign.

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No, it's probably real. They need a website, and someone tells them they can use Drupal and manage it all themselves, after a consultant/developer sets it all up and wraps it in a generic looking theme.

The site owner, with no sense of design or marketing, will then crap all over what little structure remains with each new addition, until the final result looks like a Geocities page.

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