Re: How to Takeover Any Alarm System

["Just Looking" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx>]

As you know I don't do much residential stuff. I have never even considered
using another company's proprietary or non standard panel, even on a take
over. I get mad just having to spin the cam lock about 50 turns just to get
a Focus panel open to get it off the wall, forget trying to re-program the
thing. Not even ADT will take their old panels back for free (just to keep
them out of land fills). I figured they would want them back just to be
green for the non RoHS panels of yesterday. They claim there is something
about some Sarbanes-Oxley paperwork headaches and refuse them. And yet
Brinks wants their old junk bad enough to go through this hassle? In a CP-01
world you can't use anything like an old ADT, Brinks, etc, anyway on a
new/new customer installation. The amount of effort and expense Brinks has
spent on this doesn't seem proportional to what it has at risk. It is as if
something you said or did really set someone off. Big companies typically
don't do things that cost them money just because they can. Brinks has been
to the courthouse enough times by now that I would think that they have
learned that it is more like Vegas sometimes, and despite what seems like a
sure thing, you get snake eyes instead. In this case the bad PR alone is
going to give Brinks at least a pair of black eyes.
I don't know how to say it any better than I and others have already about
the risks you face with this. It isn't the power of Brinks you have to worry
about. It is the power Brinks has to bring the power of the courts (1/3 of
the government) down on your head. That is no small thing. This whole mess
could follow you to your grave. Everything I have seen posted here about you
shows that people respect and appreciate you. Don't get caught up in trying
to parse out some approach that seems reasonable to you, this is really all
about winning. Unfortunately I don't see how that is going to happen for you
just yet, but I wish you all the best.

"Jim Rojas" <jrojas@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:4697F2D9.1000300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> You are correct about not needing anything but my laptop, serial
> programmers & cables, and a basic understanding of hexadecimal code. No
> manuals required to unlock most of the panels out there. It's not rocket
> science ya know... :) Just until recently, most of those hand held
> programmers were in storage. I actually took them out to make sure I
> wasn't mistaken on Brink's claims. I dusted them off, took them apart,
> and took some really nice pictures. I might have to buy a microscope on
> FleaBay...maybe their copyright notice and logos are in the microscopic
> range of print.
>
> Jim Rojas
>
>
>
> Just Looking wrote:
> > I know Jim doesn't unlock anything the conventional way anymore. Jim
learned
> > that slot machine trick from the guy in the 1984 movie "Starman". But
Jim's
> > abilities are much better than that now. He just does all this
programming
> > by mental telepathy now. It is impressive to see Jim upside-down and
those
> > glowing orbs floating off into space. I guess all Brinks can do now is
sing
> > "Another One Bites the Dust".
> >
> > "Sam" <nospam@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > news:j8Rli.10457$ca.10040@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> "Just Looking" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> >> news:4697ccad$0$20555$4c368faf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>> Of course he may know something he has not shared with
> >>> us yet that makes him less concerned for himself than most here seem
to
> >>>  >be
> >>> for him.
> >> he already has.  as he stated he has unlocked 0 [zero] Brinks panels
for
> >> pay.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >