With used smart home devices, you never know who could be watching

Used smart home devices might be tempting because they're cheaper. But be careful: the original owner may be able to spy on you. 

According to Wirecutter, a member of the Facebook Wink Users Group learned he was still able to see images from a Google Nest Cam Indoor he had factory reset and then sold. Turns out the camera could still be accessed from a Wink Hub, a centralized smart home hub that connects different smart devices and lets you control them all from a single app.

This was even after de-registering the camera from his Nest account, which cut off his access to its video feed from the Nest App. Read more...