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Elevator Hacking: From the Pit to the Penthouse [video]

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I remember the time I rode an elevator top to the attic of a university building where we found about a ton of mercury and an old radioactive waste storage area. That sent us to the building core of a building next door to sneak into the graduate lab and borrow a Geiger counter.

A few years later they cleaned the area out and moved the Latino studies department in.

So basically it was a small-scale model of what happens in city neighborhoods?

you could say that

Well currently in many cities, shortly afterward some engineering department would move in next door and make that area prime spot for tech collaboration and study, and after a while the Latino Studies department would have to be relocated off campus.

...but then the engineering department would start sending their people out to the new off-campus location to pick up their materials?

(alluding to the google bus fiasco)

The video can be downloaded here: http://livestreamvod-f.akamaihd.net/events/000000000030c2ae/...

thank you, came looking for this.

How'd you pull the video? There's a couple on there I'd like to cache

When you launch the video, the player downloads this file: http://api.new.livestream.com/accounts/686369/events/3195566...

In it, you can find /events/000000000030c2ae/19d2ee6c-f8a5-4d3a-bc09-2d2d21c3912c_2096.mp4

And since the streaming comes from http://livestreamvod-f.akamaihd.net/, I get:

http://livestreamvod-f.akamaihd.net/events/000000000030c2ae/...

Can someone summarize this? I don't have 2 hours to watch.

Nope. It's a 2 hour stream of facts from what I understand.

* An elevator is basically an open door to a building.

* Every lift has mandated modes that allow an operator to take full control and override any building access controls.

* The security on these modes is poor.

* Don't do dumb things with elevators

I'd encourage you to watch it in full, as it is interesting and contains more detail than the above suggests.

Decent summary, and I'd also encourage the watch-in-full. Even play in the background without visual aids, as the presenters did a great job enhancing the data via presentation.

It's worth it, sat down and watched it last night. They did a really interesting, in-depth presentation including the history, quirks of the trade and video from pen tests.

Looks like the video was removed. Anyone have a mirror?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOzrJjdZDRQ&list=UUeUXM6fLbf...

This is pretty cool!

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