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Re:Bought and returned set of WiFi home security cameras; ca... by markbnj on Sunday June 19, 2016 @12:40PM (#11933540)
Systems that provide an online account tied to a physical device have to be carefully designed for transfer of ownership scenarios, and it sounds like they didn't do the work here, or else something went wrong and the resulting error state is unfortunate.
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Re:Bought and returned set of WiFi home security cameras; ca... by digi_owl on Sunday June 19, 2016 @01:03PM (#11933644)
Frankly i suspect the devs never even contemplated a transfer of ownership scenario. The whole idea seems more and more foreign, or perhaps quaint, to the people involved in tech these days. tech is treated as something disposable, not something durable to transfer from person to person.
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