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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!"
First post? =:P
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.
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"Nothing to see here, move along"...
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.
Look for the guy with a battery pack on his back teh size of a small buick.
Don't we lose our signal easily enough already?
I got a computer so I *wouldn't* have to move, let alone run!
I Solviet Ireland, WAP runs you!
Where are those Data Darts from yesterday?!
If I wrote something witty, you would say I stole it from somewhere.
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)
What is the point of this? Honestly?
split up, ping, and triangulate?
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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Dogs are annoying. Go ECFA.
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!
I'm an idiot.
In drunken brawling.
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!
Puh, in my youth we used our eyes and had a paintgun at the ready. We had no prizes except the honor of being the best. The winners achieved alpha male like status, until we saw it in a movie and realized we actually looked like a bunch of hopeless geeks and started to play rugby instead.
This is just Foxhunting by another name.
The only difference is that this is open to non-hams.
www.eFax.com are spammers
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
Yeah, go ahead...I've got some karma to burn.
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!
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!
This is definitely news for nerds...
This is my sig. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
....had that wifi detector chip installed under my wrist while I was in the hospital last month.
The only competition an honest Irishman would admit to entering into would be drinking. Warwalking? Only if it's a pub crawl.
BTW, contrary to popular stereotype, the Irish don't have a drinking problem. They drink, fall off the stool, wake up, climb back on the stool and drink some more - no problemo ...
Next we'll hear about the Bush administratoin trying to lighten up their public image by giving a male military-fetsh prostitute a press pass and easy access to the White House ...
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?
All your thinks are belong to us.
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!
News Reporters Make Tasty Polar Bear Treats!
Group Think clowns admit NOTHING. We have sworn our oaths on the Sacred Red Nose of Bobo and the Gloved White Hand of Krusty. We will be honest, generous and true to our cause.
We may or may not be funny.
cheers,
The Group Think Clowns
(laugh at us? -5, Unfunny to you, bozo)
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
Dublin is not actually part of Ireland, it's an EU member state. Ireland is a republic, and Cork is the capital. So.
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.
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???
The US Army: promoting democracy through unquestioned obedience
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!
is dying. FaCt: one or the other
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.
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!
668: Neighbour of the Beast
was carrying the Linksys, I'd find it!
And if Sharon was with her, I'd find it fast!
Richard Steven Hack - This sig is TOO GODDAMN SHORT TO DO ANYTHING USEFUL WITH! MORONS!
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.