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Until someone on the guest network starts broadcasting audio into the elevators
by jameshart 4y ago
Until someone on the guest network starts broadcasting audio into the elevators
- monocasa 4y agoTo what end?
- JUNGLEISMASSIVE 4y ago[dead]
- bheadmaster 4y agoChaos!
- monocasa 4y agoRain will go up, cats will chase dogs, and the elevators will play acid jazz instead of smooth jazz.
- Salgat 4y agoThat's more of an annoyance than a safety issue though. This is definitely one of those YAGNI things where it's not worth worrying about until it becomes a recurring issue, which is highly unlikely.
- paisawalla 4y agoPersonally, even the remotest possibility of someone broadcasting "evacuate your rooms, there is a fire/active shooter in the building" seems worth spending a few hours protecting against.
- gambiting 4y ago....why? No, honestly, why? Would you protect against someone running down the corridor shouting the same thing?
- petertodd 4y agoIt's a lot more official if it's coming from the elevator speakers. It's also a lot harder to track down who did it.
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- paisawalla 4y ago> Would you protect against someone running down the corridor shouting the same thing? ...yes? Do you think hotels aren't protected, to some extent, against any random person putting on a blazer and announcing an emergency?
- gambiting 4y ago>>Do you think hotels aren't protected, to some extent How are they protected against that, exactly? You can literally walk up to any fire emergency button on any wall on any floor, press a button and evacuate the entire hotel, why bother with this UDP streaming nonsense?
- password11 4y ago> How are they protected against that, exactly? You can literally walk up to any fire emergency button on any wall Cameras near fire alarms and it's a crime in the U.S. to give a false alarm.
- gambiting 4y agoRight, that protects the hotel from liability, but it does nothing to protect the hotel from such false alarm happening in the first place.
- password11 4y agoThe threat to the perpetrator -- of 90 days prison time and a permanent criminal record of being a mischief-maker -- prevents people from pulling the alarm. Same way sheepdogs herd sheep.
- Salgat 4y agoIt'd be far more trivial to put a wireless speaker in an elevator than it would be to reverse engineer this.
- paisawalla 4y agoHotels are reasonably protected to such an attack. There are almost always cameras in the elevator, and the electronics are typically, to some extent, tamper-resistant.
- Salgat 4y agoIt's not hard to subtly stick a small flat wireless speaker to the wall, and by the time they notice it the attack is already complete.
- paisawalla 4y ago1. It's easier to connect to the wifi from across the street, without setting foot on the premises or showing your face on camera. 2. I'm not claiming that all attacks will be mitigated, but that this is an easy win from a cost:benefit analysis.
- Salgat 4y agoThe difficulty isn't in connecting to their wifi, but rather reverse engineering this bizarre backdoor just to project your voice in the elevator.
- interstice 4y agoThis feels like one of those hypothetical attack vectors that has probably never happened. Although I could be wrong!
- paisawalla 4y agoThere are certainly people out there who are motivated to trigger false alarms in hotels: https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2017/01/22/police-apprehend-boston-man-for-false-alarm-at-steelers-hotel/amp/ https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2017/01/22/police-appr...