Play games for The Man

• Autores: Cat Ferguson
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2947, 2013, pág. 22
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • With its bleepy sound effects and cheery music, Xylem draws users into the puzzle without giving away its secret. A bit like the plot of the recent movie Ender's Game, the solutions are helping the US military, or at least its research arm, DARPA. One of five games commissioned by the agency, Xylem hides mathematical teasers inside the story of a botanist identifying flowers on a pristine island. In another game, Storm Bound, is a fearless "Golamancer", fighting to turn a magic storm against itself by finding patterns in runes. Launched last week, the games use a player's actions to find security loopholes in anything from Internet infrastructure to military software. The simplest way to check software for bugs is to give it a bunch of commands and see if something goes wrong.