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Fuck Hilton: Black Hat USA 2024, DEF CON 32 attendees treated like children – or criminals – with invasive hotel room checks (cybernews.com)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by jjlinux@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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This is absolutely ridiculous. Imagine some fuckers just coming into your room while you're with your SO making love or something.

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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 months ago (10 children)

That's kind of silly honestly. I can see where they are coming from but the people at the conference are the good guys. If I were them I would get some of those security professionals to give suggestions on how to have better security. Also random room checks aren't going to catch anything. Anyone who wants to cause harm isn't going have such bad opsec. You will end up catching people with legitimate and highly dangerous stuff like routers, network switches and vacuum cleaners

[–] gencha@lemm.ee 9 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Just FYI, you need very little skill to clone the WiFi access gateway of a hotel WiFi, and then blast their SSID from your router, to lure close guests into your honeypot. Once people are on your malicious gateway, the fun starts.

In a hotel with hundreds of hackers on alcohol, it's not unlikely for people to fuck around.

There is also no requirement to be a "good guy" to attend the conference.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hopefully that would get flagged. If you start broadcasting that will show up under rouge ap detection

[–] gencha@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

Right. And then they locate it and search the rooms nearby. Exactly what their disclaimer is about

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