Category: Quiz
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 [email protected] 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.
Connect
Cracked by: duriel , madhur , akhi , RajT , Sridhar C , udupendra , varuns88 , prasanth , Tathagata Chatterjee , yaksha(close, but not correct) , Rahul , teju , svgreatest , Ajay Parasuram(close, but not correct) and Ginkgo100.
duriel, madhur, akhi, RajT, Sridhar C, udupendra, varuns88, prasanth, Tathagata Chatterjee, yaksha, Rahul, teju, svgreatest, Ajay Parasuram and Ginkgo100
If you were alive in the 1940s, you could see this image everyday. Where?
(If you don’t want to be too specific, you can just identify what images like this were used for)
Cracked by: Ginkgo100 , Tathagata Chatterjee , RajT , akhi and Dibyo.
Ginkgo100, Tathagata Chatterjee, RajT, akhi and Dibyo
Identify the book
Cracked by: Ajay Parasuram , madhur , Jesse Wilkinson , yaksha , teju , BiGFooT , Ginkgo100 , Arun Krishnamoorthy , Dibyo , akhi , jayanth , Vish , varuns88 , gammafunction , srikar , alakh_niranjan , Rohan , shyam , shashank , svgreatest , RajT and meghana.
Ajay Parasuram, madhur, Jesse Wilkinson, yaksha, teju, BiGFooT, Ginkgo100, Arun Krishnamoorthy, Dibyo, akhi, jayanth, Vish, varuns88, gammafunction, srikar, alakh_niranjan, Rohan, shyam, shashank, svgreatest, RajT and meghana
1 lead to the discovery of what?
Hint:
Cracked by: udupendra , varuns88 , madhur , teju , jake , Dibyo , Prasad , RajT and akhi.
udupendra, varuns88, madhur, teju, jake, Dibyo, Prasad, RajT and akhi
(1) used a converted version of (2) to build (3). Identify all of them :)
Cracked by: Sai , jayanth and jake. Neat!
Sai, jayanth and jake