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Security in Hostels

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As we've already seen, there's very little security in hostels. Another example is given by Norb who discovered the next few situations in a hostel in South Korea. 

A system that might look pretty secure for a hostel, at first, ...

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... is pretty useless, if all authentication credentials are given on a sheet nearby.

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But it seems that the owners of the hostel are not aware of possible threats ... 

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... or they are just very trustful to all the people around. :)

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