* Woman shocked to find complete stranger could control her home’s security system.* You may have a new home, but does its old owner still have access?
Imagine being contacted by a complete stranger via Facebook, and them telling you that they have complete control over the security system in your new home.
Chances are that you would be at the very least concerned, or at worst petrified.
And that’s what happened to Taylor Fornell, only weeks after she moved into her new home in Stony Plain, Alberta.
As CBC News reports, Ms Fornell was approached by a man who demonstrated that he was able to unarm her security system, unlock her doors and windows, and even track when she left her home.
Fortunately for Fornell, the man was Rob Hall, the previous owner of the property.
Hall had not contacted Fornell because he wanted to scare her with the power he wielded over her home’s security, but rather because he wanted to warn her.
Hall says that he contacted Vivint, the company which installed and managed the home’s security system weeks before Fornell moved in, but his access to the system had not been revoked.
“I felt a little sick to my stomach… It’s just really creepy and a breach of trust,” Fornell told CBC News.
I guess it’s a relief that Fornell’s home did not contain security cameras, or Hall would have found himself warning her that he could even secretly spy on her.
In an ideal world, a home’s security system should be entirely reset when the home cha ..
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