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

gonna have to pass

[get quad]

As capable as I am at winning this challenge, I'll have to spectate from behind dual LCD panels, as my job will not permit (and 10k isnt much more than the salary I'd make in the same time period). Good luck to all who have the means to slack for 30+ days!

Re:I'm in !

[JWSmythe]

    I've been a member of the former, but not the later, for over a year.

    No one knows where to find me. If I want to be seen, I find them.

    They don't want me playing the game. They'll see me to check in, so that they know I exist, and then won't be able to find me again until the day I show up to collect my cash. Sorry, part of living free is not needing to have a bank account. It's too easy to track your motions through your own bank records.

    Too bad their site is down. I'd already have signed up. Maybe I'll have to just show up to their office some night, and leave a note saying "I'm in."