Hotel Room Monitoring for Extreme Paranoiacs - And You Too

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Presented at DistrictCon Year 1 by

nyx

Maxie

Guests staying at a hotel have a reasonable expectation of privacy according to US law and court precedent. In practice, however, that does not make hotel rooms safe environments. Hotel door locks are riddled with security vulnerabilities, deadbolts are often software-controlled, physical safeguards are easily bypassed when there is no one inside, and access to the room is required by the hotel for housekeeping and emergency purposes. This leaves plenty of opportunity for unexpected visitors such as cops, thieves, stalkers, and literal evil maids, to gain access. Without the ability to prevent entry a guest’s only reasonable option is to festoon the room with sensors and redundant cameras.