Hacking your hotel

[CrazyDude]

"Modern hotels usually have the room services system built into the tv. Maintenance and house keeping can use specialized remotes to perform administrative functions. There is no security so you just need to find the specialized codes. He read one code and found out it was 14bits. It would take nine hours to check all possible codes by hand. Of course not all 16,384 possible codes do something. Major took the “ON” code, started flipping bits and testing to see if the code still worked. If it still works it means the bit is ignored. It turned out that only 10bits were actually being used. Testing that many codes only takes 35 minutes. Once completed you can do things like modifying your room bill or someone else’s even view all of the pay-per-view movies"

 

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FREE PRON!!

[segosa]

That is f*cking amazing.

[EmSixTeen]

That is very, very cool.

[Tartey]

Now this is very, very, very, VERY cool!

[Kutthroat]

lol, Linux.

[reticulatingsplines]

Now if you could only hack the minibar fridge...

[CrazyDude]

From the what I read, it seems like you can.

He mentioned a mini fridge that was locked using ir, which he found the code for. He locked his beer inside before he learned how to open the fridge back up. So that was his incintive to figure it out, the trapped beer. Read that whole article. It's lengthy but he did alot of really cool stuff.

It seems like hotels entire systems are, for the most part, totally un-secure.

I mean he even went in and changed his bill!

Then he went and changed some one elses.

Then he went and watched a guy check out his email on the tv (not actually what the guy but watched what he was doing).

Sadly this guy is a professional and isn't going to be realising these hacks. instead he'll try and sell the information to hotels.

Which means that by the time one of us figures out what to do, the hack will be fixed.

Sucks.

but it's cool as sh*t to know it's there.

[Hurricane5]

lol...

 

One time in Houston, a friend of mine and I were at a hotel during the day while we had stuff to do at night... anyways, he'd always have his laptop hooked up to a line he wasn't supposed to, doing this type of sh*t.

 

Got us a bunch of free sh*t the second night there.

[Svip]

The only hardware an intruder needs is a laptop running Linux, an infrared transmitter and a USB TV tuner. Laurie said the attack can also be performed using the infrared port built into many laptops.

 

Looks like not all of us can join, aye?

[magical_trevor]

The only hardware an intruder needs is a laptop running Linux, an infrared transmitter and a USB TV tuner. Laurie said the attack can also be performed using the infrared port built into many laptops.

 

Looks like not all of us can join, aye?

Heh, linux couldn't find the IR port on my laptop, but there must be some tools for Windows that can do this stuff..

[Bond996]

The only hardware an intruder needs is a laptop running Linux, an infrared transmitter and a USB TV tuner. Laurie said the attack can also be performed using the infrared port built into many laptops.

 

Looks like not all of us can join, aye?

Heh, linux couldn't find the IR port on my laptop, but there must be some tools for Windows that can do this stuff..

But much harder. Windows could definetly do some stuff, but you would need some specialized code and application layer stuff and so on.

 

Also, did you have lirc installed?

[magical_trevor]

The only hardware an intruder needs is a laptop running Linux, an infrared transmitter and a USB TV tuner. Laurie said the attack can also be performed using the infrared port built into many laptops.

 

Looks like not all of us can join, aye?

Heh, linux couldn't find the IR port on my laptop, but there must be some tools for Windows that can do this stuff..

But much harder. Windows could definetly do some stuff, but you would need some specialized code and application layer stuff and so on.

 

Also, did you have lirc installed?

Since I have never heard of that, I should imagine I probably didn't install it . There's loads of other hardware it couldn't find though, including the network card and the modem, which would probably prevent me from installing that anyway..

[Bond996]

The only hardware an intruder needs is a laptop running Linux, an infrared transmitter and a USB TV tuner. Laurie said the attack can also be performed using the infrared port built into many laptops.

 

Looks like not all of us can join, aye?

Heh, linux couldn't find the IR port on my laptop, but there must be some tools for Windows that can do this stuff..

But much harder. Windows could definetly do some stuff, but you would need some specialized code and application layer stuff and so on.

 

Also, did you have lirc installed?

Since I have never heard of that, I should imagine I probably didn't install it . There's loads of other hardware it couldn't find though, including the network card and the modem, which would probably prevent me from installing that anyway..

Modem was probably a Soft-Modem, and the network card was probably just a little harder to make it install properly. What distro/version did you run?

[magical_trevor]

The only hardware an intruder needs is a laptop running Linux, an infrared transmitter and a USB TV tuner. Laurie said the attack can also be performed using the infrared port built into many laptops.

 

Looks like not all of us can join, aye?

Heh, linux couldn't find the IR port on my laptop, but there must be some tools for Windows that can do this stuff..

But much harder. Windows could definetly do some stuff, but you would need some specialized code and application layer stuff and so on.

 

Also, did you have lirc installed?

Since I have never heard of that, I should imagine I probably didn't install it . There's loads of other hardware it couldn't find though, including the network card and the modem, which would probably prevent me from installing that anyway..

Modem was probably a Soft-Modem, and the network card was probably just a little harder to make it install properly. What distro/version did you run?

I used Ubuntu Hoary, and neither Svip, the ubuntu irc channel nor the ubuntu forums could help me with the network card.. it was sort of installed but not recognised, if I did lspci, it would list the network card, and it had a driver- it just didn't want to work; I believe it is a known problem on IBM Thinkpads.. (it has a 3com 3c556B NIC, which is supposed to be supported in the kernel I was using, but ubuntu wasn't having any of it )

[NeoSNightmarE]

i read about this on the linux forums i belong to. being a Linux user it makes me want to get ahold of that code. but simply because i want free minibar

 

and Trevor- thats weird about Hoary giving you that issue. ive installed Ubuntu on many laptops and haven't come across something like you're describing. hmm. you know that breezy should be out soon and may fix this right?