Watching amateur coders foil a ‘bioterrorist plot’
A woman’s voice blares out through the building’s loudspeaker. “Stay calm,” she says, as the room’s lights fade away, bathing everyone in an ominous red glow. People in white hazmat suits stream in from multiple entrances and begin sweeping the room. One suited lady focuses in on a man sitting a few feet away from me, who’s been engrossed in his laptop the entire time. As she begins scanning his arm for traces of chemicals, he looks up toward me, and can’t help but crack a smile. The reason for his nonchalant attitude about being singled out as a suspect? None of this is real. He’s an amateur code-breaker and a contestant in the UK’s Cyber Security Challenge Masterclass final, which bills itself as the “most realistic civilian cyber-terrorist attack simulation” ever. Slideshow-345725
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