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Re:I stayed in a hotel with Android lightswitches and it was... by gberger on Friday March 11, 2016 @10:06AM (#11266974)
And the GPS
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Re:I stayed in a hotel with Android lightswitches and it was... by chippy on Friday March 11, 2016 @10:15AM (#11267035)
Except they a) know where the room is anyhow and b) GPS doesn't tend to work very well indoors
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Re:I stayed in a hotel with Android lightswitches and it was... by marcospri on Friday March 11, 2016 @10:19AM (#11267059)
And the Joke Sensor
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Re:I stayed in a hotel with Android lightswitches and it was... by cdelsolar on Friday March 11, 2016 @11:59AM (#11267769)
And my axe!
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Re:I stayed in a hotel with Android lightswitches and it was... by cdelsolar on Thursday March 17, 2016 @02:07PM (#11306276)
The downvotes were worth it.
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Re:I stayed in a hotel with Android lightswitches and it was... by DasIch on Friday March 11, 2016 @12:03PM (#11267794)
Depends on how targeted the attack is. A hacker who is bored and is searching Shodan for what entertainment the IoT is offering might find GPS quite useful.
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Re:I stayed in a hotel with Android lightswitches and it was... by finnn on Friday March 11, 2016 @12:57PM (#11268249)
It's on a private subnet. You'd have to have some way to get onto the hotel's internal network. The one described in the post is being physically at the hotel. Now, there might be other ways, but this most likely isn't about to show up on shodan.
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Re:I stayed in a hotel with Android lightswitches and it was... by DasIch on Friday March 11, 2016 @03:10PM (#11269147)
You're right that in this particular case it's not a problem. Nevertheless any type of device that can be connected to a network, will be connected to the internet. Someone somewhere will make it happen.

I doubt the hotel came up with this solution completely by themselves. Whoever installed it will probably install it elsewhere and it's only a matter of time until it goes badly.

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