Infrared exploits open the door to hotel hacking

Infrared exploits open the door to hotel hacking
John Leyden, The Register 2005-08-02

Insecure hotel infra-red systems create a means for hackers to read other guest's emails, watch porno films for free and put false charges onto other guest's accounts. Adam Laurie, technical director at secure hosting outfit The Bunker, was able to [a href="http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,68370,00.html"]demonstrate [/a]the attacks to Wired prior to giving a talk on the vulnerabilities at last week's DefCon conference in Las Vegas.

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Infrared exploits open the door to hotel hacking 2007-03-22
Anonymous

I found this to be true by using a portable TV w/infrared remote that was connected to the hotel network; The standard hotel channels show...but in the upper UHF channel range 15-100, I was able to access content that other guests were watching (latest movies, porn, etc)...to include some foreign sattelite broadcasts. Thought it was a fluke...until I tested this again at another hotel...similar results....tsk, tsk, tsk.

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