Do bored hotel staff get curious about devices in their lost and found?
Dear Honey Stick Diary -
It looks like my decision to let sleeping Honey Sticks lie was the right thing to do. I had initially discovered that if I returned to places where sticks had been dropped, people would sometimes have turned them in. This was interesting to know. However, I found it hard to consistently follow up on this practice, as the locations were not always convenient.
So, I knew that sometimes sticks would get found and be turned in to authorities, where they would sit in a Lost and Found for some period of time. But this raised a question whose answer would be just as interesting.
This week, a Honey Stick that I had left at a pay phone in a hotel lobby back in February got activated. While I don’t collect IP addresses permanently, I do run an IP address to Domain Name conversion to find out if the user was on a public ISP or a private domain. (more…)
Do bored hotel staff get curious about devices in their lost and found?
Dear Honey Stick Diary -
It looks like my decision to let sleeping Honey Sticks lie was the right thing to do. I had initially discovered that if I returned to places where sticks had been dropped, people would sometimes have turned them in. This was interesting to know. However, I found it hard to consistently follow up on this practice, as the locations were not always convenient.
So, I knew that sometimes sticks would get found and be turned in to authorities, where they would sit in a Lost and Found for some period of time. But this raised a question whose answer would be just as interesting.
This week, a Honey Stick that I had left at a pay phone in a hotel lobby back in February got activated. While I don’t collect IP addresses permanently, I do run an IP address to Domain Name conversion to find out if the user was on a public ISP or a private domain. (more…)