I can confirm that a work collegeue of mine, who has worked in europe for various "folks" never returns his hotel cards and makes sure that he destroys it. BTW all the claims are possible (with a security hat on) , it would be silly to implement such a system. But people are know to do silly things... Regards Anish
PS:- aplogies on top post, blame blackberry Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device -----Original Message----- From: Indranil Das Gupta <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 17:10:56 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [silk] Hotel "card" keys - Be Careful On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 4:54 PM, J. Alfred Prufrock < [email protected]> wrote: > How true is this - > Hoax 1. http://www.hoax-slayer.com/hotel-key-card.html 2. http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/hotelkey.asp 3. http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_hotel_keycards.htm Although technically it is of course all possible :) cheers -- Indranil Das Gupta Phone : +91-98300-20971 Blog : http://indradg.randomink.org/blog IRC : indradg on irc://irc.freenode.net Twitter : indradg -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Please exchange editable Office documents only in ODF Format. No other format is acceptable. Support Open Standards. For a free editor supporting ODF, please visit LibreOffice - http://www.documentfoundation.org
