Re: Brinks & Broadview Takeovers

[mleuck <m.leuck@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Oct 10, 7:22=A0pm, Jim <alarmi...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Oct 9, 7:24 pm, Frank Olson
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> <use_the_email_li...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > mleuck wrote:
> > > It might be sabotage but then again many people moving in try punchin=
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> > > 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.
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> > Ouch!! It would hard for the end-user not to notice something like
> > that. The secondaries on most wall warts are fused, but the hard wired
> > transformers aren't. That is just plain irresponsible (on the verge of
> > criminal in my book).
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> > > And I rarely see locked ADT panels either, if it's locked it usually
> > > was installed by an authorized dealer and not core ADT
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> > That must be standard practice across the board. I haven't run into any
> > ADT installed systems that have been locked out either.
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> 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.

No they still use lockout codes it's just that everyone knows most of
them by now and they never change them