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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. Why? by turtled · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why is it okay for "agencies" to go and find vulnerabilities in public networks, but as soon as a high school student finds a hole, tells someone, then no onw does anything, he has to exploit it to get noticed, then charged with some stupid "hacker crime"?

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    "I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection." -- Sigmund Freud