Alan Paller, the director of the SANS Institute, for instance, made this argument to us when he explained to us why offensive hacking should be included in the Cyber Challenge program for finding and training young hackers, despite the risk of fostering young cybercriminals.
Earlier this year FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski announced a competition called the Open Internet Challenge, aimed at fostering the creation of apps to detect net neutrality violators, though it has yet to produce a public program.