How To Hack Your Hotel Room

[OhioBeachBum]

Just found this article - identifies yet another risk to one's personal info while traveling, and perhaps provides at least some short term opportunity for certain adept folks to aquire free drinks and vids

http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,68370,00.html

 

[Kurt]

Too many words. Summary please.

 

[OhioBeachBum]

Too many words. Summary please.

OK. Apparently notebook + infrared I/O and/or TV (cable) tuner card + a little time & fairly minimal developer savy == relatively unfettered access to anything on the hotel internal (cable) net. Addresses, home phones, etc of other guests, freebie movies, remote open room bar, so on... Author also managed to piggyback onto a net session of another guest using hotel internet link - anything other guest transmitted (along with content on his/her computer itself) was up for grabs...

Bet there are at least a couple of companies scrambling (casting net for high end dev types) to close those holes about now.