Originally Posted by
beachmouse
I'm not familiar with the hotel in question, but do think it's fair to ask a hotel to control/limit room access to the hotel's own guests, and those visiting guests in their rooms when it's structurally possible for a given floor. If a hotel has a policy of propping a back door for a daily deliveryman and not supervising that open door, then that's an action/policy that needs to be corrected ASAP.
True, reasonable precautions should be implement, though most of them generally just keep honest people honest or only manage to foil the less-intelligent criminals...
- Those magnetic swipe keys can be replicated.
- A common entry door may require a key to access, but is easy enough to work around if you just follow in another guest with a key - most people will simply hold the door open for you without a second thought.
- Stairs can often still be used even where the elevators require a key to use.
- Some clever social engineering can work around most any access control feature. And as we have seen, can even allow someone who is a total stranger into a guest's room itself.
Though in this case the alleged perpetrator was someone the guest knew, and voluntarily let him into her room. So (based on what has been posted) it doesn't appear any of the access control features in the hotel would have been relevant. Who knows, the man may have even been a registered guest and had access anyway.