Like us, you are probably wondering who are the ‘Hugobreakers” who are currently ranked first in the Hall of Fame, we decided to interview them. Here is the interview.

BOSS-Team: Hello Hugobreakers, who are you exactly?

Hugobreakers: Researchers specializing in steganography and steganalysis: Jessica Fridrich, Jan Kodovsky, Miroslav Goljan, and Vojtech Holub.

BOSS-Team: How have you heard of the challenge?

Hugobreakers: A long time ago ... from my devious students ;)

BOSS-Team: Was it difficult to reach the Hall of Fame?

Hugobreakers: No.

BOSS-Team: Do you consider BOSS as a leisure? as a coffee break? or a full-time work?

Hugobreakers: A full-time FUN!

BOSS-Team: In your opinion, what will be the best score the 15th of december?

Hugobreakers: Aaaaah, this is hard to guess. Definitely above 80%. And after all breakers start sharing ideas, the community joint forces will further squeeze the error below 10% (90% or higher accuracy).

BOSS-Team: What kind of prize would you like to get if you win the contest (except for the already existing ones)?

Hugobreakers: Permission to submit to Hugo contest an unlimited number of times :)

BOSS-Team: Interesting idea indeed, but all good things come to an end. Next question: how are you going to call the feature set that you are currently using (if you're using a new one)?

Hugobreakers: We do not know yet! But we can tell you right now that we are not using known feature sets. We try to be original.

BOSS-Team: Why do you want to hurt Hugo so badly?

Hugobreakers: We are just a bunch of mean and dangerous folks drawing pleasure from sending around files containing ones and zeros. Creators of Hugo, watch out!

BOSS-Team: You’re really mean! Hugo is just a little kid wanting to help his friends Alice and Bob... Thanks for the interview Hugobreakers!!!