Hotel Safety Tips from a Former Intelligence Officer

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by graderjs • 3 years ago

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graderjs2• 3 years ago

Interesting to consider the unaugmented hotel latches can easily be opened from outside.

graderjs2• 3 years ago

I posted this before, and people were going crazy over how these security precautions were tantamount to pretending to be "Jason Bourne" or "James Bond" haha!! Crazy. People got triggered. They said it was a "miserable" way to live, and there was no need for this kind of stuff.

Yet the same people obsess over micro settings for tracking cookies, proselytize that you gotta use DuckDuckGo for privacy, and lose their shit over cybersecurity issues, as if every cybercriminal ever is targeting them. Yet they're completely blaze about physical security and pretend that you need to be role playing as a secret agent super spy to care about that.

Just like they've got their priorities backward. Are tracking cookies, no Brave browser, and lack of 2FA of WebAuthn really the end of the world? Sure, they're important, but so is physical security.

I think something else is going on: these folks, while attacking other people for their precautions, pretend themselves to be "so special that they're never targeted by criminals and creeps". They just think they're too good for it. I mean, they're pretending they're so exceptional that they'll never be targeted for crime for in real life. They're above that, and some situational awareness and care is an unnecessary over precaution because they're perfectly safe.

The very same specialness and exceptionalism that they pretend is in others, and attack--is what they have about themselves. See...what I think this is, and what I think it exposes (apart from the completely comfortable life lulling them into a false sense of security~~either that or frontin' for criminals trying to convince everyone everywhere, "You're safe, drop your guard."), is that a lot of what they are pretend to be so passionate about online is just security theatre. A low-effort, low-risk charade. If it comes down to actual real world risks...that would take a real effort to deal with...then it's too difficult. They don't want to be actually secure or think about risk, they just wanna be the cool kids pretending they're so up their with the cybersecurity stuff. Too much of that pretense in the cyber world. Turns out these fakers against security precuations are just like those "James Bond" role players they pretend to be against. They just too cowardly to do it in the real world, so they do it online. Hahahaha! :p :) xx ;p

jaclaz• 3 years ago

Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32921157

Axien• 3 years ago

If you are not using the hotel safe, where are you putting your valuables?

I always viewed the safe as a way to protect your valuables from the cleaning staff. A hardened criminal would have no issue opening the safe.

Plus I’m more likely to forget them if they are in some hidden spot.

My recommendation is don’t travel with really valuable stuff, lock your passport and computer in the safe and you will be fine.

Hotel Safety Tips from a Former Intelligence Officer

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