{"id":237,"date":"2005-11-10T02:04:37","date_gmt":"2005-11-10T10:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?m=21"},"modified":"2005-11-10T02:04:37","modified_gmt":"2005-11-10T10:04:37","slug":"hotels-personalization-and-how-it-can-both-help-and-hinder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/?p=237","title":{"rendered":"Hotels, personalization and how IT can both help and hinder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I've been reading the posts about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/1280\">hotel swipecards<\/a> with interest. I've always been fascinated about the level of information that goes into those keys, and more importantly how secure they are. <\/p>\n<p>For example, if someone had a reader and writer, would they be able to rewrite the code that would let them into my room? <\/p>\n<p>But what fascinates me more is what else is on the key, and what other information the hotel hold about me. I often use <a href=\"http:\/\/marriott.com\">Marriot<\/a> hotels and as a member of their rewards program they hold details about my room preferences (non-smoking, bed size, etc.) so that when I book, or simply turn up, I can get the room I want without having to tell them.<\/p><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?g=21\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been reading the posts about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/1280\">hotel swipecards<\/a> with interest. I&#8217;ve always been fascinated about the level of information that goes into those keys, and more importantly how secure they are. <\/p>\n<p>For example, if someone had a reader and writer, would they be able to rewrite the code that would let them into my room? <\/p>\n<p>But what fascinates me more is what else is on the key, and what other information the hotel hold about me. I often use <a href=\"http:\/\/marriott.com\">Marriot<\/a> hotels and as a member of their rewards program they hold details about my room preferences (non-smoking, bed size, etc.) so that when I book, or simply turn up, I can get the room I want without having to tell them.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?g=21\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}