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Top hacker shows us how it's done | Pablos Holman | TEDxMidwest

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Transcriber: Bob Prottas Reviewer: Ariana Bleau Lugo

So this is a hotel room, kind of like the one I'm staying in.

I get bored sometimes.

A room like this has not a lot to offer for entertainment.

But for a hacker, it gets a little interesting because that television

is not like the television in your home,

it's a node on a network. Right?

That means I can mess with it.

If I plug a little device like this into my computer,

it's an infrared transceiver, I can send the codes that

the TV remote might send and some other codes.

So what? Well, I can watch movies for free.

(Laughter)

That doesn't matter to me so much, but I can play video games too.

Hey, but what's this?

I can not only do this for my TV in my hotel room,

I can control your TV in your hotel room.

(Laughter)

So I can watch you if you're checking out with one of these,

you know, TV based registration things,

if you're surfing the web on your hotel TV,