Justin LoshAug 11, 2024
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Hey Resorts World Las Vegas: It's wrong to treat all hackers as dangerous, and to attempt to penalize people just for owning the tools of the trade. These tools have productive uses, as demonstrated by the massive convention of professional security researchers taking place. #DEFCON32 https://www.404media.co/hotel-to-search-rooms-during-def-con-hacking-conference/
Hotel to Search Rooms During DEF CON Hacking Conference

“As you may or may not know, a well-known hacking convention will be held in Las Vegas during your stay,” Resorts World Las Vegas writes. “We will be conducting scheduled, brief visual and non-intrusive room inspections daily,” it adds.

404 Media
Aug 11, 2024 at 4:22pmWeb
Show threadRick MycroftAug 11, 2024
@eff Will they be checking attendees with non-intrusive cavity searches too?
Show threadTom BortelsAug 11, 2024

@eff

How the hell do you search a hotel room for ransomware?

This invites pranking, just sayin.

Show threadfaraiweAug 11, 2024

@eff They do not care.

The only thing corporations respect is the bottom line.

Easy solution, boycott the WHOLE chain, after notifying them of incident, do NOT hold convention on their properties, even if they apologize, until they rectify it.

Show threadShnizmuffiNAug 11, 2024
@eff I can't think of a better way to get ALL of your security vulnerabilities exposed in one weekend, than to collectively piss off the attendees of DEFCON.
Show threadMaarten De BalAug 11, 2024
@shnizmuffin @eff was thinking the same thing. I hope they go wild with their systems.
Show threadOpticalNail 🇵🇸Aug 11, 2024
@eff Oh, they will regret this. They will so regret this.
Show threadOscelotAug 11, 2024
@eff Alas, paywalled. I’m baffled that they think that untrained hotel staff can find anything with “brief visual and non-intrusive room inspections” though.
Show threadRick MycroftAug 11, 2024
@eff And what will hotel security do if they see some strange device with batteries and wires and stuff, call the bomb squad?
Show threadMaybeMyMonkeysAug 11, 2024
@eff do they even know what to look for?
Show threadjonny (good kind)Aug 11, 2024
@eff
Lol how to get all your credit card processing systems mysteriously down