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Irish 'Running Man' WarWalking Competition
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!"
will there be free beer during this event?
heh - you bet your ass i'd probably forget the competition and find my ass a pub.
I would just buy a little hand held Wi-Fi detector and run around with it. I'm pretty sure that there are models that could see the AP from pretty far away and also see the SSID even if it's not broadcasted.
Two freaks, no foes. It takes absolutely nothing to make some people angry.
The article states that individuals or "teams of two" may enter. I wonder if a team of two could use two devices? If so, teams would have a huge advantage in their ability to triangulate the position of the WAP. ... on the other hand, the second person could just run around and physically search everyone in the area...
Whoo!
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
This is why I get up in the morning.
see the :wq at the bottom :) or is it just a hoax
:wq (bottom of the page)
Verizon Wireless now has high speed wireless in major cities across the country. It would be interesting if people subscribed to this "all you can eat" access and set up mobile access points. This would be an interesting way to get access on the road.
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Triangulating the location of a wireless access point is no small task even if it is stationary, and you have 3 point of reference.
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!
First ya find the computer running the wireless then you win 200 euro, then you can buy lots and lots of Guinness ... BRILLIANT!
Is that an access point in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?
If you're using wireless internet and the router stops working every five minutes for no apparent reason, you're getting closer to the Linksys.
Save the galaxy!
Recreation? Competition? Exercise? Something fun to do? Not everything has to have a "point". Sometimes folks can just get together and have fun, you know?
This is just Foxhunting by another name.
The only difference is that this is open to non-hams.
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With my "mobile build a Linux based wireless network" competition, also being held in Dublin on that day!
This sounds a lot like Ham Radio direction finding contests. In fact, I bet a lot of the same kind of DFing technology will be used.
Look here for information about direction finding, transmitter hunting, and radio-orienteering as used by hams:
http://members.aol.com/homingin/
there are 3 kinds of people:
* those who can count
* those who can't
What is the point of this? Honestly?
two hundred euro
Yeah, go ahead...I've got some karma to burn.
what about that thing people keep talking about called "fun"?
Will there be enough servers/bandwidth to actually inform the public about it, now that it's on slashdot???
./-attention. =)
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.
perl -e'print$_{$_} for sort%_=`lynx -dump svanstrom.com/t`'
The name is 345y for me to come off like the 3|\|f0rc3r' Mass Stumbling muthafskas in a course of An everyday situation where I would stalk by Fsck the car, I do a muthafsking walk-by
groupthink clowns!
Well, fuck you!
Maybe if you can't see that this might be fun then you need to have more free time. All work and no play makes jack a dull boy.
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Running? Like... with your feet? After a moving router? I'm getting winded just thinking about it.
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.
I was planning on installing OpenWRT on my linksys today. But from the looks of it, the site's been slashdotted. Thanks for giving me some more free time today!
You really mean to tell me that you think this would be 'fun' ?
Holy Christ!
What sort of 'fun' did you have as a kid?
....had that wifi detector chip installed under my wrist while I was in the hospital last month.
Ok, I'll buy!
As in:
Du Governator -> Richard Dawson -> Killian -> Irish beer!
Reminds me of some paperwork that I had to fill out. "Have you ever abused alcohol?"
"Hell no! I use it for it's intended purpose... to get drunk."
Just look for the guy with the extension cord hanging out of his coat. Or the one carrying the really big battery. :-)
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Du Governator -> Richard Dawson -> Killian -> Irish beer!
So where's Kevin Bacon?
All we need is a former Iraq soldier, a former rockstar/drug addict, a surgeon, a bank robber and a con-artist, some icebears and a tropical Island to triangulate the signal :)
Yeah, I know I'm addicted, but who isn't?
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cheers,
The Group Think Clowns
Ah ha! - so you admit it then?
All triangulation seems to lead directly to a pub. Hmmmm beer is good!
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We may or may not be funny.
cheers,
The Group Think Clowns
(laugh at us? -5, Unfunny to you, bozo)
Treasure hunt, hide and seek, Scotland Yard ... a whole lot of "go find something/someone before anybody else does" games.
My first thought when I saw the article was, man, I wish they had this in Singapore!
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, so the next geeks I should find will be mine. So I keep on walking and BAM more geeks... but there not the ones I'm looking for. So I start walking all over the place, and there are geeks everywhere. Everyone wearing prim and proper IT work clothes, and with there satchel back pacs. I could have yelled out "Who read's /." or "Who uses firefox" and not only would everybody not looked at me weird, they would have probably raised there hands.
Well I eventually found my friends... but man, I've never seen so many nerds in one place before. It was border line scary.
Treat me like a marketing stat, and I'll treat your movie like a series of ones and zeros
Yeah. But where I came from we had girls!
So the PRC has been annexed then? Langers surrendered?
Not a bad solution to the problem with the wardriving competition a couple years ago. In their race to record the most APs, contestants were told they needed to stay West of a certain Las Vegas street - so some smartass went all the way to LA.
;p
Needless to say, he won.
Recreation? Competition? Exercise? Something fun to do? Not everything has to have a "point". Sometimes folks can just get together and have fun, you know?
It's called sex, and that IS the point.
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I personally prefer to see recruiters fight to the death for my amusement!
Zhrodague.net - I do projects and stuff too.
Call it surWIver, or Wi-Fi Rally, or whatever. Neet idea for my next video segment for tv.
Zhrodague.net - I do projects and stuff too.
HUFFDUFF???
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Thanks for sharing that
I asked someone for advice on how to deal with our triangulation, and he said "Spherical Trigonometry," and sent me a URL. I printed it out, and took one look at it. The hair on the back of my neck hasn't stopped standing on end since!
Of course, we're using GPS coords, in addition to signal strength.
Zhrodague.net - I do projects and stuff too.
How are they going to power the WRT54G? Are they gonna look for a guy attached to a wall outlet? Or what?
nobody uses an old cordless phone that for all intent purposes jams the signal, like the one my neighbors use... and use... and use....
Hopefully the contestants this year will do as well as last years winners: Whitman, Price, and Hadad!
But, all play and no work makes Jack a jerk.
There is no God, and Dirac is his prophet.
The PRC was disbanded after they found a load of dodgy northern Irish notes in langer land. Gawd at least they have internet access in this join't, and I though Portlaois was bad.
.... are you?
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To enter..
Skip the whole devices and technology thing.
Find a pair of geeks desperately trying to find something.
Follow them.
Run faster than them when they get all excited and point at someone.
The Peep's Republic of Cork is going strong... a few dirty RA lucre handlers won't shut us down. Up Cork! FUCK DUBLIN!
>> Not everything has to have a "point"
No. OP is right. Everything really does have to have a *point*.
If you can't rationalize it, or describe it, then you should really look at yourself and ask yourself why exactly, are you doing this shit.
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300 hundred anti-nerds randomly plugging in routers in every free wall outlet. Or god forbid they all start walking around with powered routers .. Turn into a gong show real quick ....
.........
Now if only I could get to ireland
In last years Defcon event, no-one could find the AP. The AP was a handheld device placed inside an aluminum potato chip bag, and inside a purse carried by a woman.
Let me guess: war-segwaying. Definitely.
:fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck^W^W^W^W^W help
..do you speak it?! ;)
Try to get from start to finish without passing a pub!
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was carrying the Linksys, I'd find it!
And if Sharon was with her, I'd find it fast!
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Fuck off to MacSlash, failure.
Try driving in Dublin City Centre on a weekend and you'll understand the change in terminology...
I got $100 on the guy with the Segway
Dammit if only they'd done this last year when I was still in that college, and that country.