<story><title>F-Secure Hack Can Unlock Millions of Hotel Rooms with Handheld Device</title><url>https://www.extremetech.com/internet/268263-f-secure-hack-unlocks-millions-of-hotel-rooms-with-handheld-device</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>duxup</author><text>Physical access dynamics area always interesting.  I used to visit data centers with high security to work on some equipment.  I almost always had more access to more areas than the local employees.  I had the magic hand that could open all doors.  Many server guys couldn&amp;#x27;t physically access the data center floor, but I could, and I didn&amp;#x27;t even work for the company.&lt;p&gt;The only guys who had more access than I did.... their $15 an hour security guys and ... the janitors.   Every room had a garbage can somewhere, someone had to get it... funny how that works.</text></item><item><author>djrogers</author><text>In a large hotel&amp;#x2F;resort, there are literally hundreds of people with access to your hotel room at any given time.  There&amp;#x27;s a reason hotel room doors have deadbolts and chains in addition to the keycard - they&amp;#x27;ve never been considered &amp;#x27;secure&amp;#x27;...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sbuttgereit</author><text>:-)&lt;p&gt;In the early 00&amp;#x27;s we were looking for data centers to host our infrastructure and I remember a couple of the tours we took.  On all the tours we saw the man-traps and the fancy hand scanning bio-metric locks as they touted how seriously they took the security of our servers...&lt;p&gt;...but as we were touring one of the facilities, a large back door was wide open to the outside directly into the main server room.  As far as we could see it was unattended.  To be fair, I&amp;#x27;m sure there was someone around... somewhere... and that the door couldn&amp;#x27;t have been left open like that for long (forget about access controls, environmental controls were compromised by that one, too!)&lt;p&gt;At another facility during that same RFP, the sales guy was trying to get us into a room and the fancy hand scanner wasn&amp;#x27;t accepting his hand for entry.  So in a fit of frustration he just opened the door... it actually wasn&amp;#x27;t locked at all.&lt;p&gt;Ah... good times...</text></comment>
<story><title>F-Secure Hack Can Unlock Millions of Hotel Rooms with Handheld Device</title><url>https://www.extremetech.com/internet/268263-f-secure-hack-unlocks-millions-of-hotel-rooms-with-handheld-device</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>duxup</author><text>Physical access dynamics area always interesting.  I used to visit data centers with high security to work on some equipment.  I almost always had more access to more areas than the local employees.  I had the magic hand that could open all doors.  Many server guys couldn&amp;#x27;t physically access the data center floor, but I could, and I didn&amp;#x27;t even work for the company.&lt;p&gt;The only guys who had more access than I did.... their $15 an hour security guys and ... the janitors.   Every room had a garbage can somewhere, someone had to get it... funny how that works.</text></item><item><author>djrogers</author><text>In a large hotel&amp;#x2F;resort, there are literally hundreds of people with access to your hotel room at any given time.  There&amp;#x27;s a reason hotel room doors have deadbolts and chains in addition to the keycard - they&amp;#x27;ve never been considered &amp;#x27;secure&amp;#x27;...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jschwartzi</author><text>At one company I worked at we had to take our garbage cans outside the room if we wanted them emptied because the janitor did not have access to our office.</text></comment>