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At least no weird room searches by Caesars this year
by Grollicus 6y ago
At least no weird room searches by Caesars this year
- kstrauser 6y agoOur room in Planet Hollywood got searched last year.
- imglorp 6y agoWTAF? Given the attendees, I'm surprised some didn't seriously mess with anybody entering their rooms. At the very least, one would expect all the goons getting doxxed, their phones pwned, and the whole shaming posted somewhere.
- kstrauser 6y agoWe weren't there when someone entered it, or there might have been a bit of GTFO discussion.
- imglorp 6y agoYeah, I'm thinking more of an automated welcome.
- tptacek 6y agoIt's not about the event; it's a thing Las Vegas hotels are doing now in response to the Mandalay shooting.
- kstrauser 6y agoIs that for attendees to all conferences, or are we special here?
- tptacek 6y agoI think if you just randomly visited Mandalay or Caesar's on vacation, you'd have the same likelihood of having your room looked in on. Every room has a notice to that effect now.
- kstrauser 6y agoThat's interesting. I'd assumed it was mainly for us.
- fortran77 6y agoThis isn't exactly true. If you tell them you don't want housekeeping service, they insist on having a staff member check inside your room at least once every 24 hours. If you're OK with having your room made up, they weren't searching rooms. I had no problems at DEFCON because I like having my room cleaned.
- cbanek 6y agoThis, and it's not about DEFCON, or conventions in general. I stayed at TI a while ago, and didn't have housekeeping come in my room for 3 days (I honestly just don't like people in my room). Eventually they did send up a security team to knock on my door. As soon as I answered and talked to them, they just went away and were happy I was alive. But this is a new pattern by Vegas hotels since the Mandalay Bay shooting, this has never happened to me in many years of Vegas before that.
- ValentineC 6y agoI found an article written after DEF CON 26 in 2018 about how room security policies clashed with privacy values, if anyone's interested: https://the-parallax.com/2018/08/12/vegas-hotel-room-security-privacy-defcon/ https://the-parallax.com/2018/08/12/vegas-hotel-room-securit...
- jedberg 6y agoSome of the attendees figured out how to enter the "the room was cleaned" code into the phone to avoid the searches.
- saagarjha 6y agoThey'll just send someone to your house this year ;)