News and notes from around the interweb:
- How to scan your Airbnb for hidden cameras
- Norwegian postpones Airbus narrowbody deliveries after all they have no money.
- Someone left behind cremated remains at the Anchorage airport security checkpoint. Normally it’s just our civil liberties we leave behind at the checkpoint.
- United’s business class menus are now more descriptive
- Poorly behaving American Airlines passenger flees through door onto apron hoping to avoid capture of course that never ends well.
- Hong Kong Airlines needs to raise cash to keep its operating license but accounting shenanigans between it and HNA Group have investors nervous.
The hidden camera in the Airbnb, or anywhere other than your private home or business, is highly illegal. Criminal and civil consequences are difficult to imagine. After Morgan & Morgan gets through cleaning out your bank account and your retirement account, your own attorney will clean out your secret off-shore ‘Swiss’ account. If the prosecutor finds a pattern, either over time or multiple camera’s, you will go to jail.
The Airbnb operator is better off not having any camera’s except for on a utility pole outdoors.
For hard-wired or off-network cameras, you need a way to find cameras using methods that don’t scan the network. Hotels/motels should also be suspected since they are independently owned or operated. A port scan will reveal so much information, you won’t know how to separate intrusive cameras from non-intrusive cameras. At the very least, if you see “red”/ infrared lights when the room is dark, look more closely. If the light turns off, you may be actively watched.
You can try to use your cell phone camera with the flash or internal light off, so make the infrared jump out.