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Fuck Hilton: Black Hat USA 2024, DEF CON 32 attendees treated like children – or criminals – with invasive hotel room checks (cybernews.com)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by jjlinux@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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This is absolutely ridiculous. Imagine some fuckers just coming into your room while you're with your SO making love or something.

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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hopefully that would get flagged. If you start broadcasting that will show up under rouge ap detection

[–] gencha@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Right. And then they locate it and search the rooms nearby. Exactly what their disclaimer is about