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

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PaulHoule

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

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

    • cobrausn

      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

        ...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

      you could say that

gulbrandr

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

brianbreslin

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

  • femto

    * 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

      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

    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

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

Lifescape

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

theplaz

This is pretty cool!

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