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More images are included by the same poster at this URL, disclosing what the hotel considers hacking tools: https://x.com/d0rkph0enix/status/1822879409126162779

Seems like whoever drafted this policy has no idea what they're talking about given USB drives and empty breadboards are on here

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DEFCON attendees having mandatory daily room searches by conference block hotels - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41222930

Since when is a soldering iron a hacking tool? When I saw that picture on the internet I legitimately thought it was a joke (similar to those magazines telling the parents to look out for "hacking software")

Having "unusual" technical skills.

You need to remember that America is stupid enough that working on calculus problems on a plane, is enough to delay the plane and get searched because the person next to you thinks you're a terrorist: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/rampage/wp/2016/05/07/iv...

Wow.

I guess they're trained that electrical engineers are the same as pedophiles.

I blame Hollywood, not the hotel staff. They can’t be expected to know what each and every stray circuitboard is/does. Not all circuitboards are bombs, but almost all modern bombs have circuit boards.

Anybody who gets their worldview from the movies deserves a big, hearty chunk of any resulting blame.

I remember a thread, either Twitter or Reddit where quotes from the book Lolita was used as evidence that most/all men are scum and perverts....

More and more I feel that most if not all people get a good portion if their world views from media.

All bombs contain matter, yet "matter" managed to escape the list. Perhaps there is a flaw in this logic?

Where are all the "modern bombs" you're talking about?

I think most bombs are hand grenades or similar, and don't have circuitry as far as I know. Just mechanicals and chemistry.

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