Tymac94 Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 I just watched one of Johnny Long's talks, the no-tech hacking one, and what did he do to unscramble the broadband signals at the hotel with a two dollar box. Any details on this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vector Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 unscramble broadband? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DingleBerries Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 Links are appreciated when referencing a talk... you know, for those who havent seen it and may be able to shed light on the situation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PC646 Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 He is referring to Johnny Longs using a bill to unscrew a hotel coax cable, then plugging it into your computer to roam around the data lines of a hotel billing system. I couldn't find a video on it, but Johnny Long brags about it here: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-9995479-83.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digip Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 Im just curious what he used to hook up to the cable? If he brought a cable modem with him, then I would think he would need to get a DHCP lease for the mac address from the sys admin, unless the hotels just let any cable mode get a lease on the network, then that is piss poor security. If it were that easy, anyone with cable could just go out and buy a cable modem and hook it up at home and be online. In reality, you have to call your ISP to get them to allow the device on their network. What a hotel does though, I have no idea, but I would be interested to find out as well. I live close to a hotel, so a cheap used cable modem, splitter and router could easily be stuffed into one of the rooms tv systems and used for other purposes, im sure, but I don't know how you get a lease from the network. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DingleBerries Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 OK ive seen this, what he has is a regular laptop tv tuner. Her unscrews the plat from the coax box to access the cable unrestricted, there is a tuner in the room that limits what he can and cannot do. He plugs unscrews the cable from the bux and plugs it into his lappy with the tuner plugged in. From there he is able to go to channels >100 and look at all of the shit going on in the hotel, including free hbo. The reason he was able to access billing was because they hotel had an option for people to check there bills from their television by going to a certain channel. Yeah so all you need is a laptop, tv tuner and a hotel dumb enough to set there stuff up in this manner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PC646 Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 OK ive seen this, what he has is a regular laptop tv tuner. Her unscrews the plat from the coax box to access the cable unrestricted, there is a tuner in the room that limits what he can and cannot do. He plugs unscrews the cable from the bux and plugs it into his lappy with the tuner plugged in. From there he is able to go to channels >100 and look at all of the shit going on in the hotel, including free hbo. The reason he was able to access billing was because they hotel had an option for people to check there bills from their television by going to a certain channel. Yeah so all you need is a laptop, tv tuner and a hotel dumb enough to set there stuff up in this manner. Yup I remember seeing that too. The biggest challenge he had was unscrewing the cable using a tight dollar bill as a grip... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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