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More images are included by the same poster at this URL, disclosing what the hotel considers hacking tools: https://x.com/d0rkph0enix/status/1822879409126162779
by intunderflow 2y ago
More images are included by the same poster at this URL, disclosing what the hotel considers hacking tools: https://x.com/d0rkph0enix/status/1822879409126162779 https://x.com/d0rkph0enix/status/1822879409126162779
Seems like whoever drafted this policy has no idea what they're talking about given USB drives and empty breadboards are on here
- cyberge99 2y agoI blame Hollywood, not the hotel staff. They can’t be expected to know what each and every stray circuitboard is/does. Not all circuitboards are bombs, but almost all modern bombs have circuit boards.
- Hizonner 2y agoAnybody who gets their worldview from the movies deserves a big, hearty chunk of any resulting blame.
- themaninthedark 2y agoI remember a thread, either Twitter or Reddit where quotes from the book Lolita was used as evidence that most/all men are scum and perverts....
- xboxnolifes 2y agoMore and more I feel that most if not all people get a good portion if their world views from media.
- ImPostingOnHN 2y agoAll bombs contain matter, yet "matter" managed to escape the list. Perhaps there is a flaw in this logic?
- CyberDildonics 2y agoWhere are all the "modern bombs" you're talking about?
- aeonik 2y agoI think most bombs are hand grenades or similar, and don't have circuitry as far as I know. Just mechanicals and chemistry.
- dang 2y ago(This comment was originally posted to another thread, but we merged it hither) DEFCON attendees having mandatory daily room searches by conference block hotels - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41222930 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41222930
- bankcust08385 2y agoI guess they're trained that electrical engineers are the same as pedophiles.
- denysvitali 2y agoSince when is a soldering iron a hacking tool? When I saw that picture on the internet I legitimately thought it was a joke (similar to those magazines telling the parents to look out for "hacking software")
- lithos 2y agoHaving "unusual" technical skills. You need to remember that America is stupid enough that working on calculus problems on a plane, is enough to delay the plane and get searched because the person next to you thinks you're a terrorist: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/rampage/wp/2016/05/07/ivy-league-economist-interrogated-for-doing-math-on-american-airlines-flight/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/rampage/wp/2016/05/07/iv...
- denysvitali 2y agoWow.