> The team began this investigation more than a decade ago, when an F-Secure employee had a laptop stolen from a hotel room. Some of the staff began to wonder how easy it would be to hack the keycard locks
This seems like a very breezy assumption they're making about how that laptop got stolen.
People who run conference events (and who manage hotels) know that things like this are the deeds of hotel staff, not masked bandits picking the lock on your door.