'Invasion of privacy': Hotel room inspections confuse US hacker convention attendees

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. — Image by mrsiraphol on Freepik

Attendees of a cybersecurity conference had mixed reactions to a Las Vegas hotel-casino conducting daily room inspections as a response to their presence in town.

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. Others said they understood the casino’s position, even if they disagreed with its effectiveness.