[Noisebridge-discuss] Hacker cracks 4 million hotel locks

[bandit]

A paper at the latest Black Hat shows the hack with an Arduino.

Hack-a-day has a post on a version where the electronics is in a dry erase
marker case, with the connector as the tip.

Basically, a connector on the bottom of the lock implements a one-wire
back door interface.

Yes, it is real. Even the tabloids need to fill space, and they use real
things. But, one should always verify if you start with the tabloids.
Unless you happen to wear black suits and have really cool blasters.

... bandit


> what, was it fake or something?
>
> it looked to me like the marker had a barrel connector on it which plugs
> into the hotel lock on the bottom and makes it open.  I can't say i'm very
> surprised about it.
>
> also, your mail client inserts copious double spacing and extravagant
> tabbing into your replies.
>
> -jake
>
> Eric wrote:
>      1st: Never trust anything the Daily Mail puts out. It's a tabloid.
>
>      2nd: Start a website if this information is important to you. I'll
>      give you free server space if you need it. I might build the site
>      for you.
>
>      On 10/10/2012 05:29 PM, Mitchel
>        McAllister wrote:
>
>                Hacker cracks 4 million hotel locks with 'James Bond
>                  Dry Erase Marker'
>
>                  Read more:
> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2213849/Matthew-Jakubowski-Hacker-cracks-4-million-hotel-locks-James-Bond-Dry-Erase-Marker.html#ixzz28wgybeQ9
>
>                  - Reverend Mik
>
>                  Umpteen million people can't be wrong... unless they
>                  are together.
>
>
>
>


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-- 
bandit at cruzio.com
505-228-8197
bandit.name

I am a systems engineer, specializing in:
- Mission-Critical embedded systems
- device drivers
- control and data acquisition systems
My stuff *works* - *all the time*.

Member: INCOSE.org, PACA.org, IEEE.org, CaliforniaConsultants.org, quelab.net

And to support my son: Proud members of the New Mexico .NET User Group.
Please go to the community website at www.nmug.net.