True or not, this escapade makes a good story. The author of the Signal15 blog, avowedly a security egineer who performs penetration testing (of the non-biological sort) for a living, explains how he recaptured hogged hotel bandwidth from a file-sharer. Our expert determined the P2P application being used, sniffed out the culprit's last name, got his room number from the front desk, and called on the phone impersonating an RIAA official. The miscreant instantly turned off his laptop and, presumably, had a fitful night's sleep. I'm not technical enough to gauge the feasability of this account, but it's a fun read.
1. He's full of it. No hotel would give out another guest's name and room number to another guest absent a search warrent.
Posted at 4:30AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Sir Not Appearing in this Blog