[Noisebridge-discuss] darpa network challenge

[Christie Dudley]

I can think of a number of ways this could be solved.  The idea is to
mobilize people in the "fun game" to report if they see a balloon.

The approach I would see to how one would solve this is to mobilize a large
national organization.  There are thousands of such hobby, fraternal,
religious or mutual aid organizations in existence.  The real test is the
motivation of the individual members to report balloons.

I suspect that any organization that was able to mobilize people across the
country to report, particularly if they're not in major metropolitan
centers, would be of great interest to DARPA as potential unofficial
communications networks.

I think it would be awesome if locations of these started showing up on
4chan.  Of course, sorting out what was real and what was just people
running their mouth would take a different kind of organization.

Christie
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On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Praveen Sinha <dmhomee at gmail.com> wrote:

> http://networkchallenge.darpa.mil/  <-- locate 10 balloons in the US for
> $40k
>
> I would hate the military to get their grubby little hands on whatever
> technique would be used to solve this problem...  BUT the problem in itself
> is fascinating to me.  Anyone up for talking about how they would approach
> it?  I'd love to get in on a discussion....
>
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