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Originally Posted by legion
...Since then I always think about the risk to me if an employee at a company I used games the system for their own personal benefit. I think there is a tremendous risk with a home monitoring service. Mark my words, it will happen some day, and it will be ugly. Think about it, the service knows when you're home or away, and deactivating your monitoring gives them free reign to unload your house at leisure.
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Actually that's not an issue.
Central monitoring is a bit of a misnomer.
The system in the home is the "brains" of the whole thing.
It only communicates with central monitoring when it has something of note to report.
It's not a "live" feed.
And most systems can only be disabled by the keypad in the home, unless specifically customized to allow remote control of the unit. I once had a unit with phone integration, I could call the house and remotely enable/disable the system from any telephone. Was a useless feature for me but came as part of the package. Disabled it anyway since I had no use for it, it interfered with the answering machine and call waiting.