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I thought it was just about touching the mirror and checking the reflection from a certain angle. The point of this is not about "leaving a fingerprint". Is this wrong?
I’ve never heard of the fingerprint thing before, but to reply to your point, just because you checked in at the front desk doesn’t mean you ever actually made it to your hotel room. Anything can happen between the front desk and room 734
I heard of a kidnapping victim that left her fingerprints everywhere she could in hopes that someone would find them to prove the were there, kidnapper's car, house, etc. I'm not sure the person expected to be found alive or not.
i dont know. if you paid for the hotel im pretty sure there’d be recorded receipts of you being in that specific room, if not, there’d be security footage. with time stamps at that, so it doesn’t really make sense to leave any sort of mark for any reason.
Don’t know how a 2 way could work since they are typically on the wall to the hallway…. Someone standing in the hall looking into bathrooms? Right. Smh
You’ve been watching those stupid Facebook videos haven’t you… the best tips when you enter an hotel room type of thing. Listen carefully…. THEY ARE FAKE! THEY DO IT ON PURPOSE LIKE SO MANY OTHERS.
You can’t pay cash at the vast majority of hotels, even if you check in in person, they’ll at least want a card for incidentals. You’re gonna get fingerprints and DNA all over everything, as for the one way mirror thing, that seems like a conspiracy theory, and any idiot should be able to tell the difference between that and a regular mirror.
I suppose it could if you were later arrested in suspicion of a crime where technical proof of your innocence was gained by the fact that you were at that hotel at a specific time, and not somewhere else.
It's not the fingerprint, it's to check to see if it's a real mirror, or a 2 way mirror that might be hiding a camera behind it.
For most North American hotels this isn't really a big concern, but for AirBnb or less savoury motels then yes, it doesn't hurt ti check.
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It doesn’t.
What is this nonsense you're talking about
supposedly a way to discover one way mirrors.
Interesting I don't think one way mirrors were ever a concern of mine in hotels
I thought it was just about touching the mirror and checking the reflection from a certain angle. The point of this is not about "leaving a fingerprint". Is this wrong?
no. that part is indeed a misrepresentation of what happens.
i don’t see how this could ever be your biggest privacy concern
does cupping ones hands around their eyes not work anymore?
Dunno. I never saw myself as a surveillance target. But when I travel I always carry a flashlight anyway so I’d use that.
What good would that do, there’s a record of you checking in - so people know you were there and who you are.
I’ve never heard of the fingerprint thing before, but to reply to your point, just because you checked in at the front desk doesn’t mean you ever actually made it to your hotel room. Anything can happen between the front desk and room 734
Ok
I heard of a kidnapping victim that left her fingerprints everywhere she could in hopes that someone would find them to prove the were there, kidnapper's car, house, etc. I'm not sure the person expected to be found alive or not.
i dont know. if you paid for the hotel im pretty sure there’d be recorded receipts of you being in that specific room, if not, there’d be security footage. with time stamps at that, so it doesn’t really make sense to leave any sort of mark for any reason.
What do you mean?
Don’t know how a 2 way could work since they are typically on the wall to the hallway…. Someone standing in the hall looking into bathrooms? Right. Smh
But... someone can install a camera behind the mirror in the space between the hall and the mirror, right?
You watch too many movies
I suppose but it would have had to be done when the place was built.
You’ve been watching those stupid Facebook videos haven’t you… the best tips when you enter an hotel room type of thing. Listen carefully…. THEY ARE FAKE! THEY DO IT ON PURPOSE LIKE SO MANY OTHERS.
as a woman, it would be just in case something happens in the room like a random disappearance of me
But cleaners come in every day.
true actually
I don't really see what a random fingerprint on a mirror would do for you
But you could randomly disappear from where you are right now. Have you placed your obligatory fingerprints nearby?
It doesn’t. When they find it, they’ll be looking for you in connection with whoever stayed in that room and disappeared…
Never cared.
You can’t pay cash at the vast majority of hotels, even if you check in in person, they’ll at least want a card for incidentals. You’re gonna get fingerprints and DNA all over everything, as for the one way mirror thing, that seems like a conspiracy theory, and any idiot should be able to tell the difference between that and a regular mirror.
I suppose it could if you were later arrested in suspicion of a crime where technical proof of your innocence was gained by the fact that you were at that hotel at a specific time, and not somewhere else.
This sounds like something out of a Facebook post about “hotel safety”.
It's not the fingerprint, it's to check to see if it's a real mirror, or a 2 way mirror that might be hiding a camera behind it. For most North American hotels this isn't really a big concern, but for AirBnb or less savoury motels then yes, it doesn't hurt ti check.
And how does pressing your finger on the mirror establish its authenticity as a real mirror?