This is very silly. As Cody would tell you, the Onity flaw he found was so basic (it is the electronic equivalent of the Bic cap trick that unlocked Kryptonite locks) that any EE grad working at DoD or NSA would have had it instantly. The idea that there'd be some huge conspiracy involving the government reaching out to private firms to enable them to break into trivially breakable locks rings false.
You should simply assume that the government has always, always, always been technically capable enough to break into hotel rooms undetected.
Two years before Cody's talk, an unknown entity (assumed by local police to be Mossad), used a third party device to reprogram VingCard hotel door locks in the field as part of the assassination of Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh in Dubai.
I imagine this is even somewhat of a litmus test for a powerful govt.-like organization in any area- the ability to find out where a foreign representative is staying, know when they're out, and search their room.
