Irish 'Running Man' WarWalking Competition

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday March 1, 2005 @03:42AM from the now-thats-a-strange-game dept.

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!"

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Triangulation by mikeumass · 2005-03-01 03:50 · Score: 5, Interesting

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!