This is absolutely ridiculous. Imagine some fuckers just coming into your room while you’re with your SO making love or something.
We have confiscated all the laptops we could find sir. They had a TERMINAL open. Filthy hackers!
“is that arch Linux?!”
Bold of you to assume they know what a terminal is.
But they were hacking all the IPs simultaneously!
They had 127.0.0.1. That’s my IP!!!
What are you talking about, that’s mine scumbag!
Reminds me of the bash.org Napster entry. For posterity:
#104052 + (14264) - [X] <NES> lol <NES> I download something from Napster <NES> And the same guy I downloaded it from starts downloading it from me when I'm done <NES> I message him and say "What are you doing? I just got that from you" <NES> "getting my song back fucker"
Barges into room.
Them: “Are you hacking, son?
Me: “No.”
Them: “Cool. I’m just a hotel employee, and I only have understanding of computers at an end-user level. Plus, I see you’re not wearing a hoodie and sunglasses while being hunched over a laptop. Have a nice day and enjoy your stay at the Hilton!”
most accurate portrait
People you dont want to piss off:
- Mother in-law
- Worlds greatest hackers
- The IRS
For real, this convention has been around for a long time without issue, we should poke the bear.
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
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.
There is also no requirement to be a “good guy” to attend the conference.
Correct. But it’s kind of the inevitable outcome that only “good guys” attend. Why would any bad actor go there and risk being exposed / caught…
Defcon is a useful resource for networking and learning. It being run by and for good guys doesn’t mean bad guys don’t find the event useful. The vague risk of “getting caught” is probably worth taking, regardless of whether that risk is tangible, especially if they follow proper security practices.
A hotel confiscating random stuff would be considered theft and the hotel employees arrested in any civilized country.
The US stopped being civilized a while ago.
I was there. It was really weird. The people doing the inspections didn’t even know what they were looking for. What, a USB drive? It was clear to me that they had a very basic, normal persons understanding of technology.
This was mainly motivated by the MGM hacks so they could show that they were doing something in case they got hacked later for liability.
How fucking stupid.
“Resorts World Las Vegas is dedicated at all times to ensuring a safe, secure, and comfortable environment for all of our valued guests,” the statement begins.
Resorts World said the latest policy was established “in light of recent events in Las Vegas, and the increasing ransomware threats to casinos and hotels on the Strip,”
Hard to see this absurd invasion of privacy as being for anything but that last bit. Hope this results in significantly fewer guests, but it feels like the vote-with-your-wallet part of capitalism stopped working some time ago.
I wouldn’t be surprised if somebody does end up pwning them with a ransomware out of spite.
The ransomware threat is coming from INSIDE THE HOTEL!
Room service now!! or kiss your data goodbye
Your title is terrible. Use the article’s title.
Agreed. I really dislike editorialised titles.
