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Privacy Tip #23 – Home security systems vulnerable to hacking

By Linn Foster Freedman on February 25, 2016
Posted in Privacy Tips

A Forbes reporter was able to hack into a home alarm system in San Francisco using a browser and “easily-guessable passwords.” The hacking was with permission of the owner but allowed him to make his point—that he could unlock the doors and turn off the alarm while he was sitting in London.

According to the…

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