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Maybe it's worse: If these are really off the shelf tablets, presumably the camera can be turned on remotely. Though I'm sure the hotel would have put a piece
by radarsat1 11y ago
Maybe it's worse: If these are really off the shelf tablets, presumably the camera can be turned on remotely. Though I'm sure the hotel would have put a piece of black tape over it, right?
- GotAnyMegadeth 11y agoAnd the microphone
- gberger 11y agoAnd the GPS
- chippy 11y agoExcept they a) know where the room is anyhow and b) GPS doesn't tend to work very well indoors
- marcospri 11y agoAnd the Joke Sensor
- DasIch 11y agoDepends on how targeted the attack is. A hacker who is bored and is searching Shodan for what entertainment the IoT is offering might find GPS quite useful.
- finnn 11y agoIt's on a private subnet. You'd have to have some way to get onto the hotel's internal network. The one described in the post is being physically at the hotel. Now, there might be other ways, but this most likely isn't about to show up on shodan.
- DasIch 11y agoYou're right that in this particular case it's not a problem. Nevertheless any type of device that can be connected to a network, will be connected to the internet. Someone somewhere will make it happen. I doubt the hotel came up with this solution completely by themselves. Whoever installed it will probably install it elsewhere and it's only a matter of time until it goes badly.
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- Raphmedia 11y agoI was thinking the same thing. A tablet with a camera on an unsecure network in the bathroom? Hell.
- mark-r 11y agoThe silver lining of going with the lowest bidder, the tablets are unlikely to have cameras.