Re: Brinks & Broadview Takeovers

[Jim <alarminex@xxxxxxx>]

On Oct 9, 7:24=EF=BF=BDpm, Frank Olson
<use_the_email_li...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> mleuck wrote:
> > It might be sabotage but then again many people moving in try punching
> > in things to see if they work and get the same outcome. I can only
> > thing of one instance of real sabotage and that company stripped and
> > twisted every wire behind the control panel together.
>
> Ouch!! =EF=BF=BDIt would hard for the end-user not to notice something li=
ke
> that. =EF=BF=BDThe secondaries on most wall warts are fused, but the hard=
 wired
> transformers aren't. =EF=BF=BDThat is just plain irresponsible (on the ve=
rge of
> criminal in my book).
>
>
>
> > And I rarely see locked ADT panels either, if it's locked it usually
> > was installed by an authorized dealer and not core ADT
>
> That must be standard practice across the board. =EF=BF=BDI haven't run i=
nto any
> ADT installed systems that have been locked out either.

I would guess that at the beginning, ADT had lockout codes but with
the turnover rate of their customers AND their dealers, I'm guessing
they soon realized it was just too much to keep track of them all or
to control the dealers who left the flock from divulging the codes.