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Hacking Hotels 101

Posted by timothy on from the room-service-to-room-mumble-mumble dept.

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. Oh, I see how it is by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I do that, and I go to jail for 5 years. He does it and he's on Slashdot!

  2. Inspiration... by utopicillusion · · Score: 5, Funny

    He did it for free porn!!

  3. Re:ya by Hogwash+McFly · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh yeah, you want a seriously righteous hack, you score one of those Hiltons man. You know, the hotels they use to like, rent rooms and stuff.

    *rubs nipple*

    Wouldn't you just love to get one of those Hiltons baby...

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  4. Re:My own experience by Kiaser+Wilhelm+II · · Score: 5, Funny

    Some of these hotels/motels run pretty amateur operations for their "high speed access", so having a hub wouldn't surprise me at all.

    Even if the network is switched, one could just use a simple ARP poisoning tool such as ettercap to poison the MAC address table and make the switch go into "hub mode".

    Recently, I was at a Super 8 Motel in Addison, TX for business. I had alot of free time at the motel, so I got in my laptop and used the wireless. The connection was painfully slow, 3000-8000ms pings to everywhere. I fired up ettercap (ARP poisoning isn't nessecary on wireless, but ettercap is still a cool sniffing tool regardless) and saw that some bonehead was saturating the T1 with Gnutella downloads of pornographic pictures.

    I could care less that he is looking at porn, but he was hogging all the bandwidth. I solved the problem by "stealing" his IP address and generating some traffic to keep the the ARP table of the motel's router associating the "stolen" IP address with my MAC so that he could not use the internet.

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  5. Re:OFF TOPIC: /. Poll Locked by darkonc · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's not permanently disabled. You just need the proper infrared code to unlock it. I've got it right here, on my laptop....

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