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Topic: Be careful if you stay at hotels
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PixieJane
Knowflake Posts: 1264
From: CA
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted November 27, 2012 10:56 PM
  
No doubt this is a danger for motel rooms as well, but hotels would be more attractive to thieves for obvious reasons:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/11/26/security-flaw-in-common-keycard-locks-exploited-in-string-of-hotel-room-break-ins/ quote:
Two days after the break-in, a letter from hotel management confirmed the answer: The room’s lock hadn’t been picked, and hadn’t been opened with any key. Instead, it had been hacked with a digital tool that effortlessly triggered its opening mechanism in seconds. The burglary, one of a string of similar thefts that hit the Hyatt in September, was a real-world case of a theoretical intrusion technique researchers had warned about months earlier—one that may still be effective on hundreds of thousands or millions of locks protecting hotel rooms around the world.
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Faith
Knowflake Posts: 2743
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Registered: Jul 2011
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posted November 28, 2012 10:17 AM
 Thanks for the warning!That is crazy! IP: Logged |
Desiring Shadows
Moderator Posts: 1814
From: UNITED STATES, BABY
Registered: Jan 2012
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posted November 28, 2012 05:25 PM
this title made me laugh. lol
but okay, I'll take a note. omg this is so scary xDIP: Logged |
hippichick
Moderator Posts: 2023
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Registered: May 2009
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posted November 28, 2012 05:26 PM
Yea buddy!!!And not to mention the bed bugs one can pick up.. Ewww! I used to drive from San Antonio to northern Indiana and stop halfway to spend the night in Little Rock Arkansas and I have had water and sodas jacked from my truck bed..and woken up to The POlice... Great thread! IP: Logged |
libraschoice77
Knowflake Posts: 479
From: NYC
Registered: Aug 2010
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posted November 28, 2012 05:44 PM
Yikes... glad you posted this article, my SO and I are about to go on vacation soon and will be staying in a hotel.IP: Logged |
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