Image this:

You check into your hotel room, turn on the TV and hack you way into your next door neighbor’s hotel account. You can now charge him for your movies (mostly p0rn^H^H^H^Hentertainment), charge him for the room service, and basically live off his hotel account.

Sound ficticious? complicated? Well not as much as you’d expect. All you need according to Adam Laurie is

“… a laptop running Linux, an infrared transmitter and a USB TV tuner.”

One drawback is that:

“It could take hours to decipher the more than 16,000 possible codes a TV remote uses.”

But Laurie automated the process by using a program he wrote that analyzed and mapped all the possible codes in 35 minutes to see which ones were relevant for the system he was trying to crack.

Unfortunately :S Laurie doesn’t plan to release the program.

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Are you scanning your site for vulnerabilities on a daily basis?