Re: CADDX NX-6 question from homeowner

["Mark Leuck" <m..leuck@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Robert L. Bass" <robertlbass@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:z6CdnRJjjtxqI9TfRVn-2g@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > or...........he could be a burglar looking
> > for away to break in. which would be
> > easy to do with a few keypresses to
> > disable monitoring if the installer code
> > had not been changed.
>
> Or he could be Batman.  Come on, Phil.  That's just a bit far-fetched.
> Imagine a would-be burglar going to the trouble of first determining which
> make and model alarm system is in use at Joe Schmoe's house.  Next he
looks
> in USENET for a newsgroup related to alarms.  The alleged thief supposedly
> already knows enough about Caddx panels to understand how to reprogram the
> central station monitoring.  Now if he can just get someone to teach him
how
> to crack that lock-out code...
>
> Bear in mind we're talking about some place that is protected by a simple
> NX-6, not some multi-million dollar mansion full of furs and jewelry.
>
> The best odds are the guy has a system which he owns but he doesn't have
the
> code.  That is an extremely common scenario, whereas the "high tech" thief
> searching USENET for help defeating an alarm is about the least likely
> possibility of all.

That last part explains it all, "The best odds" means none of us know jack
and we are only guessing

None of us knows who he is
None of us knows if he even has a system
None of us knows if he has indeed paid for the system
None of us knows if he even tried contacting the previous company