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If it's not MGM it's Caesar's. And both MGM and Caesar's are owned by VICI Properties.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vici_Properties#Properties Insane. Who is competing with them on the Las Vegas Strip? Just Blackstone with Bellagio, Cosmo, and Aria? Those investors have the power to have practically all properties on the strip not compete with each other.
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If it's not MGM it's Caesar's. And both MGM and Caesar's are owned by VICI Properties.
The companies themselves are not owned by VICI, the land and properties are, and Caesars and MGM (and other casino operators) pay VICI rent.
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Wonder if VICI assets are protected from having underfunded pensions of casino employee unions.
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We often make fun of IOT and unnecessary app stuff, but these features 1000% make sense.
The problem is it works badly. You have to open the app which has to load and then you can get access to your key. But if you’re on an elevator then you might not have service and the app won’t load and then you can’t get to your key to use the elevator. Or worse if you don’t have great service in the corridor. It needs to work in a way where the key is saved to your phone so it can be accessed quickly and offline.
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We often make fun of IOT and unnecessary app stuff, but these features 1000% make sense.
The problem is it works badly. You have to open the app which has to load and then you can get access to your key. But if you’re on an elevator then you might not have service and the app won’t load and then you can’t get to your key to use the elevator. Or worse if you don’t have great service in the corridor. It needs to work in a way where the key is saved to your phone so it can be accessed quickly and offline.
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Fwiw you could probably build this in a way that it continues to operate without internet. This creates a new attack vector (disable the internet and you can't revoke access) but that's probably acceptable given the physical attacks possible.
Each key gets a revision number. When the first set of keys are created, they get revision number 0. The lock records a high water mark of the revision numbers it has seen. Only keys matching the water mark get to unlock the door. When you want to revoke a key, you re-issue a new set with a higher revision number. When the guest checks out, you issue the next revision number to the next guest, effectively disabling t…
Assuming it does use asymmetric keys to prevent someone from creating counterfeit access cards, there would still be a window (if the network is unavailable) where the old key would continue to work until a new key is scanned the first time on the door lock?
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How do those hotel door locks work? When I had an apartment with a tap keyfob, it was battery-operated and the fob seemed to be programmed for that specific lock, so I thought they could work offline.
These days the locks are online so that you can block a lost keycard from the front desk. Previously you had to open the lock with a never keycard than the lost one to make the lost one inoperable. That works kinda fine in a small hotel but not when you 48000 rooms with millionaires in them.
Take w/ requisite salt, but per Daily Mail [1]: > Thousands of guests at MGM Resorts in the Las Vegas strip have been locked out of their hotel rooms after the company was hit with a cyber attack, according to reports. > MGM Resorts International has about 48,000 rooms on The Strip. The company's properties include Mandalay Bay, the Bellagio, Luxor and MGM Grand, among others. > The outage, first detected on Sunday n…
I'm currently rewatching the Las Vegas (2003) NBC TV series (the one with James Caan, Josh Duhamel, James Lesure, Molly Sims, Nikki Cox, Vanessa Marcil etc). Feels on-brand; like every second ep is about some fantastic heist. It's worth rewatching as a guilty pleasure, IMO. Feels quite alien compared to current fare. It's dumb but well-crafted, fun and glitzy and never takes itself too seriously. I miss that kind of…
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Was just coming here to say it: And nothing of value was lost.
Your opinion is valid, however I'm currently on a plane heading there, likely a third of the passengers won't be able to check into their hotel. Same with dozens of planes. Kinda sucks for them.