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Hacking Hotels 101

romka1 writes "Wired has an interesting interview with Adam Laurie, chief security officer of the London security and networking firm ALD. Laurie was able, using laptop, tv tuner and an infrared port to access premium content, billing information of all the rooms in the hotel, watch how other guests access their emails and access desktop of a backend computer clicking icons on the desktop and launching applications."

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  1. Re:Why? by kd5ujz · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Because when high school students do this shit, they later rm -rf the entire storage array.

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