{"id":41130,"date":"2019-12-12T11:55:33","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T16:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=41130"},"modified":"2019-12-12T18:20:44","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T23:20:44","slug":"wapo-she-installed-a-ring-camera-in-her-childrens-room-for-peace-of-mind-a-hacker-accessed-it-and-harassed-her-8-year-old-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=41130","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: She installed a Ring camera in her children\u2019s room for \u2018peace of mind.\u2019 A hacker accessed it and harassed her 8-year-old daughter."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2019\/12\/12\/she-installed-ring-camera-her-childrens-room-peace-mind-hacker-accessed-it-harassed-her-year-old-daughter\/\">She installed a Ring camera in her children\u2019s room for \u2018peace of mind.\u2019 A hacker accessed it and harassed her 8-year-old daughter.<\/a> By Allyson Chiu  (&#8220;Several Ring users nationwide have reported that their security systems were also infiltrated by hackers who harassed them through the camera\u2019s two-way talk function.&#8221;)<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cHello there,\u201d a man\u2019s voice said.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t Alyssa\u2019s father, who was elsewhere inside the family\u2019s Mississippi home. The voice belonged to a stranger. And not only could the faceless man speak to the young girl \u2014 he could see her.<\/p>\n<p>In a chilling exchange caught on video last week, the LeMays say the man was able to interact with their daughter after hacking into a Ring security camera that had recently been installed in the bedroom shared by Alyssa and her two younger sisters. Over the course of several minutes, the man repeatedly directed a racial slur at Alyssa and tried to persuade her to misbehave, according to a copy of the video obtained by The Washington Post.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The story mentions others. Ring is owned by Amazon. Think of the potential liability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: She installed a Ring camera in her children\u2019s room for \u2018peace of mind.\u2019 A hacker accessed it and harassed her 8-year-old daughter. By Allyson Chiu (&#8220;Several Ring users nationwide have reported that their security systems were also infiltrated by &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=41130\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surveillance-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41130"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41134,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41130\/revisions\/41134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}