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From other reports, it sounds like hotel security was trained about hackers carrying the Flipper Zero. Maybe they thought the badges were something like that?
by mapmeld 2y ago
From other reports, it sounds like hotel security was trained about hackers carrying the Flipper Zero. Maybe they thought the badges were something like that?
- bugtodiffer 2y agoIf the Flipper is what you worry about at DEF CON, you really did not understand it.
- waihtis 2y agoits hotel security though. they will not know what a flipper is apart from being a "hacking tool", and maybe they heard some other terms associated like "radio", "wifi", and whatever. They're just doing what they've been instructed to do to retain their job
- bugtodiffer 2y agoyeah, their boss is the one I am mad at
- MichaelZuo 2y agoThe hotel general manger who probably spent less than 10 minutes thinking about how to differentiate ‘hacking tools’ from random electronics? And that’s assuming they thought about it all, instead of just forwarding a vaguely remembered email.