Every hotel and building using this key technology was exposed to this risk. Tomi Tuominen and Timo Hirvonen, who work at F-Secure, immediately warned the company.
Lähilukuominaisuudella toimivan hotellihuoneen lukon voisi avata epärehellisin keinoin tehdyllä yleisavainkortilla.
Fifteen years ago, two young men – Tomi Tuominen and Timo Hirvonen – went to a hacker meeting in Berlin. They stayed at a fine hotel.
Then, something bad happened: a colleague had their laptop computer stolen from a hotel room.
There were no signs of forced entry, and the staff were unable to find out what had happened. The victim was a well-known information security researcher, which gave them cause to suspect that the thief knew what they were doing.