The truth is you are not a guest but a customer.
> Also, what are they hoping to find?
There are pictures in the thread you didn’t bother reading. They are mostly looking for network equipment and usb appliance left plugged where they shouldn’t be. Both things clearly prohibited by the hotel ToS.
In the US? There are several countries where that would be illegal.
Apparently you need to be logged into X to see this. I did not see any thread under the post (a good reminder to use proper language when pointing such things out, the other person might not have seen there there is a thread).
Regardless, I am not a user of X so I won't be able to see the thread. Thanks for inlightening with some examples!
> Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that".
> "There are pictures in the thread"
Thank you for pointing that I do indeed know the guideline. Note that I’m not being snarky in my comment about reading the thread. I do know it wasn’t read - it’s obvious from the comment - which makes commenting on it a complete waste of time, an issue I encounter more and more often here.
That’s not what these checks are for. These started in response to the mass shooting at Mandalay Bay, and they’re looking for an arsenal.
After the Mandalay Bay shooting MGM settlesd an $800 million case. They were sued for negligence because had any employee just gone in the guys room they would have stopped the whole thing.
After that daily checks have been the policy in a whole lot of places.
Yeah, and a daily room check will help with that how exactly? Are they going to take laptops away from guest? Flipper zeros? SDRs?
Yes, it’s part of the pictures provided. Just read the bloody linked thread. Why even bother commenting if you are not going to…
Hotels don’t steal or seize things. You will politely asked to vacate if they don’t like what you do.
Whole thing makes no sense. If someone's going to hack the hotel they're not going to be stopped by housekeeping doing a visual check! It is very much Politician's Syllogism, as mentioned elsewhere in the thread.
You can put pretty much anything you want at the end of this sentence and then discount it as posturing. "Check if nothing weird is plugged where it shouldn’t be" is basic policy.
It’s not supposed to be an invulnerable shield. It’s just an easy to make step in the direction of security and therefore worthwhile.
I prefer not to comment about the general contempt I see for housekeeping staff throughout the comments in this thread. I think it would paint a pretty sad picture of this community.
This absolutely happens today, although it is rare. Hotels have turned over a client's property from rooms or valet to police without a warrant. Some hotels will actually search your bags if you use their luggage room service. This started happening after the Vegas shooting and seems to be only a Vegas practice (or at least I haven't read articles on it happening elsewhere).
2018, so as part of the same new security since the mass shooting.
> Hotel security are also confiscating attendees lock picks, although we can kind of see why they would do that. The sight of a hacker with lock picks in your five star hotel must scare the bejeesus out of any security guard. But still, lockpicks are part of hacker culture and organizers are trying to get them back for you.
> Its not just confiscating items that they can see in rooms, there are reports of hotel security going through attendees personal belongings too, they have very clearly been searching through suitcases, an unnaceptable violation of their guests privacy.
2. The policy is for the cleaning staff to scrupulously applies the usual policy with more attention than usual and reports out of the ordinary things to a support group with IT and security, which seems, well, fine? They are hosting a large group of people specialising in hacking. It is indeed more likely that something fishy with their IT will happen then than at any other point in time.
The whole thing is just pretty much asking staff to be extra vigilant. There are plenty of precedents allowing me to suggest it’s a very reasonable and good idea.
The Twitter thread then quickly goes into crazy conspiratorial territory when they somehow think that the pictures shared imply search and seizure. Hotels never seize things and they don’t rummage through your stuff. The whole thing is about security getting involved proactively if they see things in the open especially if they are plugged where they shouldn’t be.
Still amusing to see people who spent their whole careers arguing about extra invasive provisions to shield against potential sometime fairly remote security risk extremely spooked by room checking - a fairly standard procedure in every hotel.
Edit: Downvoting me to death because you dislike what I say is not going to make it stop being common sense. At least, if you disagree, please have the courage to engage in honest discussion. Also please read the thread, 90% of the reply at the time of my edit are completely pointless because they didn’t bother checking what the hotel is looking for and prefer trying (and predictably failing) to look smug.