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A very interesting war is going on between security experts. This all started with a report published by Acunetix, which claims that 70% of websites are at immediate risk of being hacked! In response to the report, NetworkWorld’s security guy, Joel Snyder issued a $1000 challange saying that percentage is a crock. Acunetix responded by accepting the challange (with some twist in terms). Another hacker RSnake thinks It’s one of the easiest challenges he’s ever heard and even offers help to taking Joel’s money. The story was Slashdotted, and there’re tons of comments on the issue, Thomas Ptacek has a hilarious Thousand-Dollar-Joel follows up on Slashdot’s comments.