Wired Writer Disappears, Find Him and Make $5k 135
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."
The catch (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.
blarg (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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Far too easy. (Score:5, Funny)
Taking all the fun out of it (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.
hey guy... (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.
No problemo (Score:5, Funny)
1. Post his picture in the general vicinity wherever his credit card transactions are, with the note "Have you seen this child molester?" underneath.
2. Take pictures of him/give him the codeword in jail* a few days later.
3. Profit!
* Though I'm not sure how the whole secret word thing will work if a mob beats him to death.
Re:Privacy illusion. (Score:3, Funny)
I bet you get a knock on your door within a day. -_-
Or a foot tap.
Re:Sounds like a good time for a photoshop contest (Score:3, Funny)
That guy is a PRO nerd (Score:3, Funny)
Re:That guy is a PRO nerd (Score:4, Funny)
The spice must flow.
Re:The catch (Score:5, Funny)
Hack an ATM and use the image from it for the photo.
You can speak the password to him via the network that McDonalds uses to take orders in the drive-through these days.
"Ok. I have 3 cheeseburgers, an Iced Tea and the password is "Where the fuck is Waldo? That will be $5,004.89 at the first window. Please pull through."
No need to leave the basement.