Stay Off the Grid, Win $10,000

DariusD writes "Last summer, Wired writer Evan Ratliff wrote a story about how people erase their identities and start over. After it ran, he tried to disappear — spending 25 days on the lam until a few enterprising Wired readers tracked him down through some brilliant hacking and sleuthing. Now we're going to try the experiment again. Evan, Wired, Loneshark Games and I are working with Universal Pictures to do another, similar contest connected to the new film Repo Men, and this time we want you to go on the run. We need four applicants willing to disappear from their lives from late February to late March. If they can stay hidden for that time period, they'll end up with $10,000 each."

Comments

Dear Boss,

[boneglorious]

I'll be out of the office for a month. Please ignore the anonymous person checking stuff into the svn repo, I swear it isn't me...

Re:Dear Employee,

[DeadDecoy]

That's fine, I'll also ignore sending pay-checks to this anonymous fellow as well, as he clearly isn't you.

Don't do it!

[lupinstel]

I have seen this setup many times before. Once you sign up you are soon hunted for sport by wealthy businessmen and heads of state. You will disappear forever and "win" the $10,000, but your stuffed and mounted corpse won't be able to spend it from the underground chamber it is displayed in. I have seen this happen; beware.