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

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64 points by hawkharris 11 years ago · 17 comments

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PaulHoule 11 years ago

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.

  • nnnnni 11 years ago

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

    • cobrausn 11 years ago

      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.

      • nnnnni 11 years ago

        ...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)

    • PaulHoule 11 years ago

      you could say that

gulbrandr 11 years ago

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

brianbreslin 11 years ago

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

  • femto 11 years ago

    * 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.

    • sbhere 11 years ago

      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.

  • Mandatum 11 years ago

    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.

  • BCM43 11 years ago

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

Lifescape 11 years ago

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

theplaz 11 years ago

This is pretty cool!

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