Irish 'Running Man' WarWalking Competition 134
phaxx writes "Dubbed 'WaveHunt', this is the Irish take on DefCon's RunningMan competition. Contestants will have three attempts, each an hour long, to locate a moving Linksys WRT54g running OpenWRT Linux. They must positively identify the person carrying the hidden acccess point and report this back to base. The first prize is two hundred euro, and it takes place this coming Saturday, March 5th. The intended venues are a large park, a defined area of winding streets in Dublin City Centre, and a multi-level shopping centre!"
beer and linux (Score:2, Funny)
heh - you bet your ass i'd probably forget the competition and find my ass a pub.
Re:beer and linux (Score:1)
They also play their golf entirely sober.
Re:beer and linux (Score:1)
Re:beer and linux (Score:1)
What's wrong with Guinness?
beer and linux AND BANDWIDTH/SERVERS (Score:1, Offtopic)
I was wondering why the OpenWRT-button on my website didn't load; took me about 3 seconds to figure out that I should go check if some mean person had given OpenWRT some
As soon as they're back up I'm saving a copy of that "button" on my own server/site [svanstrom.org].
Re:beer and linux (Score:1)
Re:beer and linux (Score:1)
but they'll exhaustively search each and every pub
Re:Simple answer (Score:2)
Re:Simple answer (Score:5, Interesting)
Ham's have these (find the transmitting guy) things all the time. They call them foxhunts. The best anecdote I remember is one year the guy transmitting was an elderly man fishing off a bridge. He was using the fishing poll as the antenna. Nobody wanted to disturb him.
- Cary
--Fairfax Underground [fairfaxunderground.com]: Where Fairfax County comes out to play
Twice the persons = twice the PC's? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Twice the persons = twice the PC's? (Score:2, Funny)
At first I though that was a crazy idea - then realized that if it was held in the US, a clever team could just obtain some t-shirts marked "Homeland Security" or something, setup a fake X-Ray scanning table outside and start searching everybodys backpack and parcels. Locate it by social engineering instead of rf sniffing
Re:Twice the persons = twice the PC's? (Score:1)
That said, that's a really smart idea
Re:Twice the persons = twice the PC's? (Score:2)
Re:Twice the persons = twice the PC's? (Score:3, Informative)
In btw, it is possibly the only meaningfull movie the Terminator ever made.
Re:Twice the persons = twice the PC's? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Twice the persons = twice the PC's? (Score:2)
I claim first post! (Score:1, Funny)
Now then; can you just imagine how people will react to seeing teams of geeks with their high-tech gadgets running around all over the place? Even before they get a false positive on you.
- Kizor, Making an idiot of myself in public since 1994
intentional vi-l33tness? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:intentional vi-l33tness? (Score:5, Funny)
It must be a hoax -- a user trying to quit vi actually types this:
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Re:intentional vi-l33tness? (Score:2)
Re:intentional vi-l33tness? (Score:2)
Verizon (Score:2, Insightful)
--
Dogs are annoying. Go ECFA.
Triangulation (Score:5, Interesting)
However combinting 2 points of reference with signal strength from each point should make the job possible, assuming there is not too much interference from external sources. The hard part will be trying to keep track of how your experimental locations map up to location of persons who could be carrying the access point.
Maybe you could just look for someone with an antenna sticking out of thier backpack!
Re:Triangulation (Score:3, Funny)
Simply identifying the nerdiest guy on the streets of Dublin is probably a fairly sound strategy.
Re:Triangulation (Score:1, Informative)
Mostly because the signal strength "meters" on most wifi cards are utterly useless. All you really need is "signal found and acquired".
Ah, the modern foxhunt (I don't believe that even the traditiona
Re:Triangulation (Score:3, Informative)
Spherical Trigonometry (Score:3, Interesting)
Of course, we're using GPS coords, in addition to signal strength.
Winners! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Triangulation (Score:1)
One person with a directional antenna can do this.
Now if you're dropping a bomb a thousand miles away, you better have something better than shoot it over that way.
Re:Triangulation (Score:2)
oblig (Score:3, Funny)
Re:oblig (Score:1)
"a little black book! briliant!"
*slap*
"it also works as a coaster!"
"a coaster?! BRILLIANT!!"
(typical slashdotter night at the pub, as put in a Guinness commercial).
Re:oblig (Score:2)
the AC
Re:oblig (Score:2)
My, My (Score:5, Funny)
This should be pretty easy (Score:5, Funny)
Foxhunting by another name (Score:5, Informative)
The only difference is that this is open to non-hams.
Re:Foxhunting by another name (Score:2, Funny)
Or Recruiters... (Score:2)
Re:Foxhunting by another name (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Foxhunting by another name (Score:2)
Re:Foxhunting by another name (Score:2)
I am not speaking of hunting Vulpes vulpes, but rather the sport practiced by amatuer radio operators of tracking a hidden transmitter with radio direction finding equipment.
Damn, this coincides (Score:1, Funny)
sounds a lot like...ham radio (Score:5, Informative)
Look here for information about direction finding, transmitter hunting, and radio-orienteering as used by hams:
http://members.aol.com/homingin/
I could do this without a Wi-Fi device (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, go ahead...I've got some karma to burn.
Re:I could do this without a Wi-Fi device (Score:5, Funny)
Listen for young women screaming: "Get the f*ck away from me!"
Re:I could do this without a Wi-Fi device (Score:2)
Geek Bar (Score:2)
I once went to a bar to meet up with some "internet" friends of mine. I don't see these people that often so when i walk into the meeting place, I just look for the geeks. We can identify our own kind right away. Well I went into this one bar and right by the door was a bunch of geeks. So I start to walk over and they notice me, and they give me a weird look. These obviously were not MY geeks. Ok ok, that doesn't happen often
Re:I could do this without a Wi-Fi device (Score:2)
I hope the weather reports are correct for Dublin, sunshine and 10 degrees for Saturday. The continent has been fucking c*ld this week, the snow hasn't melted since the s
War Walking? (Score:1)
The name is 345y for me to come off like the 3|\|f0rc3r' Mass Stumbling [netstumbler.com] muthafskas in a course of An everyday situation where I would stalk by Fsck the car, I do a muthafsking walk-by
English muthafska.. (Score:1)
Not my cup of tea... (Score:5, Funny)
Let me know when the host a go cart enabled competition. Or at least with those scooters for handicapped people. I'd be all over that.
Thanks /. ! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Thanks /. ! (Score:1)
Easy (Score:5, Funny)
New Reality Show (Score:2)
Amazing! (Score:1)
Walking to Los Angeles (Score:3, Funny)
Needless to say, he won.
Re:Walking to Los Angeles (Score:4, Informative)
I know this because I was one of the other contestants who was angry and impressed by the interesting interpretation of the rules.
What strategies are they going to use? (Score:2)
Power? (Score:1)
Just hope that... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Just hope that... (Score:2)
I can see it now (Score:1)
Now if only I could get to ireland
Wardriving... warwalking... What's next? (Score:3, Funny)
A mod to the rules... (Score:2)
If Andrea Corr... (Score:2)
was carrying the Linksys, I'd find it!
And if Sharon was with her, I'd find it fast!
Why it's called "Warwalking" (Score:1)
Bitter associate (Score:1)
Re:I think some people have too much free time (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:I think some people have too much free time (Score:3, Funny)
It's called sex, and that IS the point.
Re:I think some people have too much free time (Score:1)
Re:I think some people have too much free time (Score:2)
Re:I think some people have too much free time (Score:2)
Oh no! My karma suffered at the hands of the... (Score:1, Flamebait)
Well, fuck you!
Re:Oh no! My karma suffered at the hands of the... (Score:1)
cheers,
The Group Think Clowns
Re:Oh no! My karma suffered at the hands of the... (Score:2)
Re:Oh no! My karma suffered at the hands of the... (Score:2, Funny)
We may or may not be funny.
cheers,
The Group Think Clowns
(laugh at us? -5, Unfunny to you, bozo)
Re:I think some people have too much free time (Score:2)
Re:I think some people have too much free time (Score:2)
Holy Christ!
What sort of 'fun' did you have as a kid?
Re:I think some people have too much free time (Score:1)
My first thought when I saw the article was, man, I wish they had this in Singapore!
Re:I think some people have too much free time (Score:2)
Re:I think some people have too much free time (Score:1)
Re:For those who dont know.. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:For those who dont know.. (Score:2)