'Invasion of privacy': Hotel room inspection confuse hacker convention attendees

Re:'Invasion of privacy': Hotel room inspection confuse hack... by mapmeld on Tuesday August 13, 2024 @12:18AM (#41232183)

From other reports, it sounds like hotel security was trained about hackers carrying the Flipper Zero. Maybe they thought the badges were something like that?

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Re:'Invasion of privacy': Hotel room inspection confuse hack... by bugtodiffer on Tuesday August 13, 2024 @04:16AM (#41233400)

If the Flipper is what you worry about at DEF CON, you really did not understand it.

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Re:'Invasion of privacy': Hotel room inspection confuse hack... by waihtis on Tuesday August 13, 2024 @04:35AM (#41233511)

its hotel security though. they will not know what a flipper is apart from being a "hacking tool", and maybe they heard some other terms associated like "radio", "wifi", and whatever. They're just doing what they've been instructed to do to retain their job

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Re:'Invasion of privacy': Hotel room inspection confuse hack... by bugtodiffer on Tuesday August 13, 2024 @04:51AM (#41233584)

yeah, their boss is the one I am mad at

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Re:'Invasion of privacy': Hotel room inspection confuse hack... by MichaelZuo on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @02:13PM (#41248940)

The hotel general manger who probably spent less than 10 minutes thinking about how to differentiate ‘hacking tools’ from random electronics?

And that’s assuming they thought about it all, instead of just forwarding a vaguely remembered email.

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