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 Posted: 02/17/17 8:58 pm ::: The Internet of Things |
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Just read two articles from two different sources about this today.
Your connected house may still be controlled by the previous owner and the same with your newly purchased used car.
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Realtor Chad Curry recently talked to a home buyer who worried there was something wrong with the furnace in her new house. Every time she set the thermostat to 70º, it reset itself to 80º.
Some sleuthing finally revealed the problem — the former owner’s new house was cold and he kept trying to get the heat to go on by turning up the temperature using the app on his phone. Unfortunately, it was still connected to his old thermostat in his old house. |
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2017/02/17/connected-homes-real-estate-home-buying-home-selling-nest/97971230/
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| "The car is really smart, but it's not smart enough to know who its owner is, so it's not smart enough to know it's been resold," Henderson told CNNTech. "There's nothing on the dashboard that tells you 'the following people have access to the car.'" |
http://money.cnn.com/2017/02/17/technology/used-car-hack-safety-location/index.html
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