Ask HN: What events would you want in a "Hacker Olympics"?

How about a reverse event: Have two sides start with the same set of machines in bare metal; they have a time limit and a set of parameters about hw to config the bare metal.

One team is security; the other is black hat.

Each team has a mole. The mole cannot reveal their position...

Mutiple iterations.

* Develope/Secure a [type] of site against [type] attack

* Create/Find resource leach

* Create/Recover from, [outage type]

These teams should be sponsored by various vendors... A weighting system needs to be developed.

You'd want a balanced team; where you have a range of skills in your team; where you also have a need for their expertise in each step through resolution.

It would be even more interesting to develop the team that writes the scenarios...

A competitive AI challenge.