This from Richard Giles:
"In London today a gang war broke out over a territorial dispute. However, the territory was not physical space, but a wireless cloud of bandwidth. The dispute erupted when a Wi-fi user of a local free network connection accused another of dropping in on his wave. "Not only did this newbie drop in, he launched a p2p flood.", said one of the local Wibos.Several laptops were broken in the fight, and one Wibo was taken to hospital for the removal of a PCMCIA Card. Residents of the casual cafe strip expressed some distress at the increase chalk markings that have appeared, and the rise of threatening looking white bespeckled males."
OK. Maybe not. But I think it's worth while setting some ground rules for the use of the Wi-fi freenets that are popping up, especially with the increased profile via warchalking.
sounds like a action-thriller coming next summer to a theater near you!
Posted by goopymart at June 27, 2002 04:51 PMsort of takes network CTF to a new level. sounds really fun actually, minus bodily PCMCIA insertion.
we need a website or server where clans/gangs can meet and join forces, declare areas as 'theirs', then hack any machines that enter their turf... only participating machines, of course. >:P
it'd require a lot of work to do right, and safely. still, more games that take advantage of wireless protocols are sure to emerge... and 'gang war' reminded me of dope wars. who hasn't played that on their palm? now imagine it networked!
Posted by adept at June 27, 2002 07:50 PM