‘There are monsters in my room:’ How a smart home security system failed
Post Reports
The Washington Post
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🗓️ 26 April 2019
⏱️ 20 minutes
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| 0:30.8 | It's Friday, April 26th. |
| 0:34.8 | Today, the high-tech risks of smart home devices. |
| 0:38.8 | A college basketball team suffers at the hands of their coach |
| 0:42.7 | and the case against huge restaurant portions. |
| 0:48.0 | What happened was this mother Tara, |
| 0:50.4 | daughter's about three, and she kept saying there's a man in my room, |
| 0:53.2 | and this went on for weeks, and they thought, you know, |
| 0:56.1 | she must be having nightmares, and they tried to reassure her. |
| 0:59.6 | Then one day Tara walks in the room, and she hears pornography |
| 1:04.5 | playing through her kid's nest can. |
| 1:09.0 | Reed Alvregati covers consumer electronics for the post from San Francisco. |
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