Next step was to get my hands on a small ethernet switch (US$7 at a local computer store!) to allow me to get my computer on the network at the same time as the STB. The box itself was branded as '2M-Locatel', which led to some interesting details on the web, but nothing that helped actually access it. The results were, as you can probably guess from the default password comment above, very interesting. Whilst recently staying in a hotel in Asia that used an external STB I decided to do some digging into the system to see how secure it was. Many of these use IPTVs, but a small number use external Set-Top Boxes (STB) of various forms. More and more of the hotels I stay at use some form of IP-based system for the in-room TV. That might seem obvious, but it's amazing how frequently default passwords seem to turn up. Unchanged vendor default passwords are bad.
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