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Room inspections at Resorts World confuse, annoy DEF CON attendees


Several Def Con 32 participants staying at Resorts World casino-hotel said they were being treated as criminals because they chose to attend a hacking convention.

As a multiple-time attendee of Def Con, the longest-running and largest hacking conference in the United States, he said other Las Vegas casino hotels have done similar searches in years past. Resorts World Las Vegas informed most guests — although not all — that it would conduct daily “scheduled, brief visual and non-intrusive” inspections in response to a “well-known hacking convention” in town. Chandler Emhoff, of Ohio, was attending Def Con for the first time and the hotel’s room inspection policy did not make for a good first impression of Las Vegas.

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