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Thursday, January 24, 2008

Non-techish Hacks: zwei (german for 2 o.O)

Another great non-technical hack that I found was in hotel rooms. I won't delve into great detail on how to do this, but basically, there is a way to break their security within about two seconds(depending on the speed you can remove a coax :P) on their television channels. After doing such, one could watch any channel they could if they had paid for it, as well, as in larger hotels, when a customer views their bill, it unlocks a specific channel and sets it for their information, now if we pre-hacked our room, we could change channels and hit someone's channel that was unlocked and see their billing info. Now, with that in mind, say they have that new spiffy internet through t.v.? Now we can see what they are doing on the internet, may it be viewing naughty websites, or viewing their bank website and logging in. This is obviously a, 'Do not try this at home, kids' subject. But I found it great to see some not so technical things such as this. I hope to find some more articles similar to this.

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