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Wired Writer Disappears, Find Him and Make $5k

Posted by samzenpus on from the hiding-in-plain-sight dept.

carp3_noct3m writes "A freelance Wired magazine journalist has decided to see what it is like to disappear from normal life, all while staying on the grid. The catch, is that he is challenging anyone and everyone to find him, take a picture, and speak a special codeword to him. If you can do that, you can make 5000 dollars, which happens to come out of his paycheck for the article he'll be writing. Oh, and to top it all off, whoever finds him gets pictures and interviews in Wired. He has been posting to his Twitter, using TOR for internet, and the Wired website will be posting his credit card transactions."

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  1. The catch by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 5, Funny

    The catch, is that he is challenging anyone and everyone to find him, take a picture, and speak a special codeword to him.

    But, but... that would require leaving my basement.

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  2. blarg by grub · · Score: 5, Funny


    It'll be funny when a Mac user wins the $5K and has to admit finding him on the other side of a glory hole.

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  3. Far too easy. by ep32g79 · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is too easy, Just get a judge to tell you where he is.

  4. Taking all the fun out of it by horatio · · Score: 5, Funny

    You will be excluded from winning if you commit a crime in your efforts to find me, contact my family, or physically harm me.

    Man, talk about taking all the fun of a game.

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  5. Re:Is this an ad? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yes Slashdot does post links to contests.

  6. hey guy... by hort_wort · · Score: 5, Funny

    Come to my house and let me win the contest. I'll give you $3000. I'd be happy to tell wired the advanced methods I used to win.