Hotel Keycard of I.M.F. Chief May Tell a Tale
By JIM DWYER
NYT
Under siege by thieves who regularly got their hands on old-fashioned room keys, hotels in New York began using electronic locks on their doors in 1977, led by the fabled, fusty Algonquin. The new keys would be plastic, with a magnetic strip swiped through a card reader on the door.
They would leave an electronic trail, stamped with the times that a door opened, closed or was left ajar.
It is likely that this technology will provide an informative record of traffic in and out of the suite at the Sofitel Hotel where a 32-year-old housekeeper, a widowed immigrant and mother, encountered Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund..
Since Mr. Strauss-Kahn’s arrest on charges of sexual assault, his allies have been busy inflating trial balloons. Benjamin Brafman, a lawyer for Mr. Strauss-Kahn, declared that the evidence was “not consistent with forcible encounter” — inviting, inevitably, the suggestion that no force was evident because none was required. Mr. Brafman thus walked up to the edge of the cliff but did not quite say there had been consensual sex.
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NYT
Under siege by thieves who regularly got their hands on old-fashioned room keys, hotels in New York began using electronic locks on their doors in 1977, led by the fabled, fusty Algonquin. The new keys would be plastic, with a magnetic strip swiped through a card reader on the door.
They would leave an electronic trail, stamped with the times that a door opened, closed or was left ajar.
It is likely that this technology will provide an informative record of traffic in and out of the suite at the Sofitel Hotel where a 32-year-old housekeeper, a widowed immigrant and mother, encountered Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund..
Since Mr. Strauss-Kahn’s arrest on charges of sexual assault, his allies have been busy inflating trial balloons. Benjamin Brafman, a lawyer for Mr. Strauss-Kahn, declared that the evidence was “not consistent with forcible encounter” — inviting, inevitably, the suggestion that no force was evident because none was required. Mr. Brafman thus walked up to the edge of the cliff but did not quite say there had been consensual sex.
(More here.)
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