Corporate Boardrooms Open To Eavesdropping

cweditor writes "One afternoon this month, a hacker toured a dozen corporate conference rooms via equipment that most every company has in those rooms: videoconferencing. Rapid7 says they could 'easily read a six-digit password from a sticky note over 20 feet away from the camera' and 'clearly hear conversations down the hallway from the video conferencing system.' With some systems, they could even capture keystrokes being typed in the room. Teleconferencing vendors defended their security, saying the auto-answer feature that left those system vulnerable was an effort to strike the right balance between security and usability."

Re:You're going to be disappointed...and bored

[Maximum Prophet]

A few years back, some mob boss was being prosecuted. The government brought in a "Mob Speak" expert to testify, translating the "Mob Speak" to English.
Saturday Night Live did a spoof of this. When a mob boss says "I'm going out for Cigarettes", he means "I'm going to kill the guy". When he says, "Do the Laundry", he means "Kill the guy". When he says "That's great.", he means "Thanks for killing the guy".

All you need is a Corporate to English translator, and you'll get all the incriminating evidence you need.

Re:You're going to be disappointed...and bored

[Anne_Nonymous]

>> All you need is a Corporate to English translator, and you'll get all the incriminating evidence you need.

margin control programs = cheat the customer
continued price symmetry = cheat the customer
expanded target demographics = cheat the customer
synergistic empowerment = cheat the customer
organic growth paradigm = cheat the customer
proactive globalization = cheat the customer around the world
win-win mindshare bandwidth = cheat the customer
granular rightsizing = cheat the customer
golden parachute = thanks for cheating the customer

Re:little brother is watching too.

[nomadic]

At a place i used to work there was this one room that had a camera on a 2 axis pivot/drive. it was creepy when it would turn on and swing around to point right at you.

Did you work at the front gate of Jabba's palace?

Re:Does this actually work in real life?

[Medievalist]

You probably could wire a whole fucking Christmas tree lighting to the system and they still would be hard-pressed to notice something happening when it is turned on.

I actually did mount a piece of pegboard in an equipment rack with a smoked glass door and put christmas lights in the holes. I used the kind of lights that have a controller box for running patterns, and set it on "random", and left it running for about five years.

People with suits and ties would just stare at that thing in awe. My boss used to do her dog'n'pony shows standing in front of it.