Jet plane routes from Tokyo-LA and back.
Why are the routes different?
Cracked by everyone! duriel , teju , Ginkgo100 , pratap , manubhardwaj (nice find :) ) , Dibyo , varuns88 , shivathilak , Sandesh , shyam , Vinay , yaksha , Ganesh Prasad , Tathagata Chatterjee and shashank.
duriel, teju, Ginkgo100, pratap, manubhardwaj, Dibyo, varuns88, shivathilak, Sandesh, shyam, Vinay, yaksha, Ganesh Prasad, Tathagata Chatterjee and shashank
A court statement made by (1) during a hearing three years ago claimed that someone, say X, made some very very obnoxious statements involving (2)s and (3).
What am I talking about? Identify (X), (1) and (3). Don’t bother with (2), it is just a representative of its species.
Cracked by: udupendra , varuns88 , shashank , priyananda , Arun Warrier , Dibyo and Vinay.
udupendra, varuns88, shashank, priyananda, Arun Warrier, Dibyo and Vinay
X- Steve Ballmer
Logo of ____
Hint:
Cracked by: varuns88 , srichand , Dibyo , priyananda , duriel and udupendra
varuns88, srichand, Dibyo, priyananda, duriel and udupendra
Which famous geek connects these people?
Cracked by: udupendra , Arun Warrier , varuns88 , teju , Dibyo , shenoyvarun86 , Atul Mathew , jayanth , RajT , duriel, bobo and Rohan (bravo to you, sir).
udupendra, Arun Warrier, varuns88, teju, Dibyo, shenoyvarun86, Atul Mathew, jayanth, Rohan, RajT, duriel and bobo
Which fictional character has been “teddy bear”-ized here?
Hint: All geeks would have read the book in which this character appears
Cracked by: udupendra , RajT , teju , bobo , varuns88 , Dibyo and duriel.
udupendra, RajT, teju, bobo, varuns88, Dibyo and duriel
What is the missing piece of the pie? And while you answer that, post the source of the data too :)
The force was with Prasad , varuns88 , teju , Ginkgo100 , manubhardwaj , Dibyo , Vish , duriel , BiGFooT , shashank and udupendra.
Prasad, varuns88, teju, Ginkgo100, manubhardwaj, Dibyo, Vish, duriel, BiGFooT, shashank and udupendra
Jedi.
Identify
Cracked by: yaksha , shashank , madhur , srichand , teju , Arun Warrier , udupendra , Ginkgo100 , duriel , priyananda , Rahul , anirudh , varuns88 , shyam , psrinivas , akhi , Dibyo , gammafunction , svgreatest , shivathilak , Keerthi Kiran M , kiran , BiGFooT , piezocake and Rohan.
yaksha, shashank, madhur, srichand, teju, Arun Warrier, udupendra, Ginkgo100, duriel, priyananda, Rahul, anirudh, varuns88, shyam, psrinivas, akhi, Dibyo, gammafunction, svgreatest, shivathilak, Keerthi Kiran M, kiran, BiGFooT, piezocake and Rohan
This is a question by duriel… Thanks a bunch man. (MOAR Qs 2 boiledbeans@gmail.com PLZKTHX)
What’s going on?
Cracked by: varuns88 , teju , duriel , Sridhar C , shashank , Dibyo and madhur.
varuns88, teju, duriel, Sridhar C, shashank, Dibyo and madhur
Connect:
Cracked by: jayanth , gammafunction and shashank.
jayanth, gammafunction and shashank
The guy circled is Kevin Poulsen. He gained initial notoriety by a hack where he took over all the phone lines to KKIS-FM (an LA, USA based radio station), and ensured that he was the 102nd caller. The station was holding a contest at the time, wherein whoever would make the 102nd call would win a shiny new Porsche :)
A typical demo of this technique does it this way: You’re sitting at your PC happily looking at something (like in (1)). Guys sitting almost 25m away (not in direct contact with you) can reproduce your entire screen (like in (2)).
What’s this technique called?
It isn’t new, BTW. A proof-of-concept was published by a Dutch researcher in 1985. (The technique was eventually named after him)
Phreaked by: udupendra , duriel , Rahul , madhur , akhi , Dibyo , Ashwin , varuns88 , shashank , teju , Tathagata Chatterjee and yaksha.
udupendra, duriel, Rahul, madhur, akhi, Dibyo, Ashwin, varuns88, shashank, teju, Tathagata Chatterjee and yaksha
The process of “eavesdropping” on a monitor from far away by reading the EM signals emitted was called Van Eck phreaking, after Wim Van Eck, the scientist who first invented the method.