The widespread nature of local attacks is well known to every hotel manager.
Each one of us stops at a hotel from time to time in the slide you can see two devices that prove very
useful for anyone who plans to stay at a hotel.
The device visible on the bottom left can get you free electricity in a hotel room.
Electricity in hotel rooms is usually cut off until the guest sorts a card key into a special slot.
If you play such a universal card they're It gets access to the code that will allow you to switch on
electricity in every room of the hotel as Chinese made devices available on the Internet.
On the right side of the slide you'll see another interesting device.
In most hotels room door locks are unlocked with a key card.
When you check into a hotel you get your key card program.
This requires you to fill out a long and detailed questionnaire asking about lots of private information
this alone creates a huge security issue.
After you've filled out the form the receptionist hands you the key card.
It carries information about your room and check out date.
The staff can use a hotel master key card to open any room at any time.
Once you get your key card you go to your room and place it on the device.
You can see in the picture then you replace your key card with a blank card.
The device copies the hotel data from the key card onto the blank card instead of a specific room number
and checkout date.
The device right sounds at their card a series of nines.
This will give us unlimited access to every room in the hotel.
There are many such devices that make local attacks easy.
So if someone leaves a laptop in their hotel room the person who is in possession of such a master key
card could easily get access to the laptop.
Even if it's hard drive is encrypted with bit longer true crypt it wouldn't help much if the user left
the laptop hibernated or not turned off
a person that can get physical access to the machine will either read the password directly or infect
the computer with a key logger and wait until the owner logs in.
This will give that person full access to the data stored on the laptop software that extracts data
encrypted with true crypt was tellingly named evil made local attacks present a serious threat.