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Ironically, there's plenty of worry about the integrity of their Wi-Fi - in a few, highly-targeted cases they've had state-of-the-art attacks (courtesy of the South Korean government).

http://securelist.com/blog/research/66779/the-darkhotel-apt/

I think the big takeaway lesson is: always assume the network's untrusted, let's strengthen our protocols accordingly to ensure they're encrypted and authenticated whenever possible and deprecate the weak ones which are easy to manipulate like HTTP and Telnet. And happily, that's beginning to happen…

They could have a legitimate concern for rogue wifi networks that use the same SSID as their legitimate wifi network. But that's the only legitimate concern, and it can be stopped by allowing hotels to _only_ block wifi networks that use the same SSID.

But they want the ability to block any and all wifi networks, which is BS.

They might also want to block wifi networks with similar names, to avoid confusion.

The final quote sums it up. This statement proves how important it is that people can use their personal wifi.