{"id":250,"date":"2005-08-01T14:59:14","date_gmt":"2005-08-01T18:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/?p=250"},"modified":"2005-08-01T15:01:09","modified_gmt":"2005-08-01T19:01:09","slug":"hotel-hackery-with-your-remote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/01\/hotel-hackery-with-your-remote\/","title":{"rendered":"Hotel hackery with your remote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year there&#8217;s a hacker conference, called DefCon, that allows black hats and white hats to come together to out-impress each other. It just let out this weekend and there&#8217;s usually a good flow of interesting news. Here&#8217;s a bit.<\/p>\n<p>While trying to get hotel pr0n without paying for it, this guy discovered some interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/privacy\/0,1848,68370,00.html\">vulnerabilities<\/a> in the TV-remote-based system that most hotels use. Here are some of the things that can be done:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get free smut (gotta start with that one)<\/li>\n<li>Unlock the minibar<\/li>\n<li>View and alter the bills of other guests<\/li>\n<li>Read another guest&#8217;s email<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So the next time you&#8217;re at a conference with an annoying colleague, just throw 20 nips of Smirnoff and a showing <em>Kookoo for Cocoa Cocks<\/em> on her bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year there&#8217;s a hacker conference, called DefCon, that allows black hats and white hats to come together to out-impress each other. It just let out this weekend and there&#8217;s usually a good flow of interesting news. Here&#8217;s a bit. While trying to get hotel pr0n without paying for it, this guy discovered some interesting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}