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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can't people sometimes pick up other people's baby monitors? Upthread, someone said hotel security told her people do this all the time. So if you were a monster, maybe you'd get a baby monitor to pick up on little ones left alone in a hotel room?[/quote]

From a purely logistical perspective this is a pretty silly concern. There are 138 rooms in the Yale Club and appear to be at least 5 other hotels in a 3-4 block radius of this hotel. Even if someone did hack the camera, they would have no idea what room. This would be akin to a thief in a parking garage knowing one car in 1000 was unlocked. Except in this case the cars themselves (IE, hotel rooms in fairly upscale hotels) are much harder to break into. Even if a bad actor had a hotel room skeleton key they would have to just randomly start picking rooms to open and are far more likely to accidentally open the door on multiple guests and expose themselves then find these kids. [/quote]

But if they worked in the hotel and had access to enter a room in the hotel, it would be a lot easier. I've worked in the hospitality business for 20 years and would never leave my kids alone in a hotel room. There are so many people who can gain access to your room (and I hate to say this but there are some sketchy people working in hotels, high-end or not). I always use the metal bar lock when I am in my room alone. A baby can't do that.[/quote]

I mean again, they would have to know it was THEIR hotel, which sure, some clues on the monitor could nail it down, and still have to go and open a LOT of doors, on a LOT of floors. I feel like a hotel bad actor like that is much more likely to try to get into empty rooms and rob people? But still that would be a risky, very public searching expedition, and it would depend on knowing what hotel it was, which likely would be pretty hard to determine from a blurry black and white monitor picture. But I mean, I'm not saying this could never happen, just that this is the kind of absurd fear mongering based on an event with a really infinitesimal likelihood of happening. A lot of things would have to line up for this to happen (a hacker, monitoring regularly, identifying the hotel, having broad access to the rooms, etc etc). And while this is horrible, a very high number of child abductions are committed by someone the child knows, and so playing in their front lawn they are more at risk from something like this then being asleep in a hotel room. [/quote]

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