Friday, May 10, 2019

AirBnB: Let the buyer beware

Spycam found in AirBnB rental:
An Airbnb "superhost" has been arrested and jailed after a guest discovered a camera hidden inside an internet router placed in the bedroom. 
The perv had picked on the wrong woman. Yunfei (her online alias) works in IT security and always checks hotel rooms that she stays in. She became immediately suspicious when she arrived at the apartment in Qingdao in China's Shandong province. 
"I found a motion sensor monitor at the flat's entrance and two in the two bedrooms, which is odd since the flat had not been renovated for smart-home automation," she told the Beijing Youth Daily. 
She stuck stickers on the sensors and turned them toward the wall before embarking on a deeper search, checking the TV and smoke detectors for hidden cameras. It was when she spotted the internet router in the bedroom, facing the bed, that she began to get really suspicious however. 
One of the lights that indicates an Ethernet connection to one of the ports in the back was slightly different to the others. On closer inspection it turned out that the four-port router had five lights. She found a picture of the same router online: it only had four lights.
Ugh.

4 comments:

Rick C said...

"the flat had not been renovated for smart-home automation"

Hmmm, wonder how she knew that.

Aaron C. de Bruyn said...

Amazing idea: instead of installing cameras because you are renting your home out to strangers....stop renting your home out to strangers.

Beans said...

Gee, just don't rent from sketchy sources. Don't get a non-taxi taxi.

Old NFO said...

No surprise... Apparently there is a 'good' market on some pron sites for 'amature' actors...