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I protect my personal devices with a vpn while traveling... especially on hotel public wifi.

I have recently started bringing along a google mini just to make music easier.

Not a good choice.

A recent hotel visit involved porn audio being injected into our mini. Unplugged I did.

No more minis on our trips.
 
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How is that possible? Is there no security in these devices?




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I've never heard of anything like that. I spend a good portion of the year in hotel rooms all over the globe; I've never encountered that.

Something had to have been requested, or you had to have connected to something you didn't intend to connect.
 
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A recent hotel visit involved porn audio being injected into our mini. Unplugged I did.


Sorry, I am laughing at your expense.


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Originally posted by MtnPlinker:
I protect my personal devices with a vpn while traveling... especially on hotel public wifi.

I have recently started bringing along a google mini just to make music easier.

Not a good choice.

A recent hotel visit involved porn audio being injected into our mini. Unplugged I did.

No more minis on our trips.


Just imagine the people trying to watch the porn, with no sound as you were streaming their audio. lol



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Just imagine the people trying to watch the porn, with no sound as you were streaming their audio. lol


Lol! Big Grin




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Oh god!


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Just imagine the people trying to watch the porn, with no sound as you were streaming their audio. lol


Thank God for Closed Captioning.
 
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I protect my personal devices with a vpn while traveling... especially on hotel public wifi.

I have recently started bringing along a google mini just to make music easier.


I have bad news for you... Wink





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could have been picking up the folks next door that had left their device on while recreating......

Back when I was doing a lot of chimney repair and had a helper we used wireless radio head sets to communicate and while up on roofs you could pick up all kinds of things around a neighborhood from baby monitors...


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I thought porn was better without the sound? You got the raw end of the stick. Big Grin
 
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I would bet that someone in the next room was using a google chromecast to cast to the TV.

You left your peering open and they cast to your Mini.
 
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