My Skewering of Vivant Security Systems

I've posted about Vivint Security Systems on this blog and have personally dealt with this company personally as they tried to sell me on their ultimate security system but, I ultimately rated them as a D as a business after a little research. Now, as an Army veteran who found this ABC News report on them, I now demote them down to an F- with all kinds of malice!. If there was a lower grade, believe me, I would rate them as low as is possible! BTW, the Better Business Bureau has demoted Vivint to a big fat F*cking F. And, I'm not one to curse.

 I feel compelled to relay this information on Vivint to my security minded followers after finding this report on ABC News. As you well know, many businesses will readily jump on whatever hot bandwagon is popular simply for the sake of profits after having their legal team write contracts with legal loopholes and shady wording on their contracts and have their sales force promise all kinds of pies in the skies to make make the sales and lock them into legal quagmires. Well, as this ABC report clearly shows, Vivint appears to be just another money hungry company jumping on the veterans bandwagon to take clear advantage of US vets by means of legal mumbo-jumbo for profit by "legally contractual" means. Just another reason to avoid this deceptive and disgusting alarm company.

At this point, I wouldn't let them install their system in my dog's house. As a Desert Storm and 19 year US Army vet, I feel like an innocent kidnapped virgin sold as a whore for some scumbag's profit who will will just use me for my body then discard me off to the side of the alley as soon as the band wagon profits dropped.

Vivint, let me ask you something. Where is your focus? Veterans who answered their call of duty to defend the very democracy that give you the opportunity to live a prosperous life, or financial gain for your corporate officers and shareholders? Is your personal luxurious life more important than the lives of patriotic Americans who have sworn their lives to the US Constitution and sacrificed their lives? Can you possibly be that f*cking shallow? Really? A fancy car and mansion is more valuable to you than a fellow American life who is willing to stand up for your rights and the basic human rights of others less fortunate? For your personal gain??? Then you hide behind legal "contracts" you deceptively wrote for that purpose?

Vivint, go ahead and hide behind the deceptive cloak of Capitalism, the American Dream, The US legal system, The dog eat dog world, every man for himself, who ever ends up with the most toys, wins, the every minute there's a sucker born mentality, however your sick mind can justify your pathetic behavior. You will NEVER win and ultimately wind up just another has been company who attempted to undermine true American truth!

OK Vivint, before you sic your legal team on me for defamation and slander, let me ask you this? How many lawyers do you have on retention and payroll willing to risk their legal careers versus how many military vets since WWII and truly patriotic Americans willing to stand firm for vets over a company who was re-branded from APEX because of customer complaints? Just remember Vivint, there is enough on you online to for us to prove our point regardless of your overpaid legal team. Your legal maneuvering will NEVER override the truth because financial gain can never beat out the American patriotism of American vets and true Americans!

Suck it up buttercup! Oh sorry Vivint. did I offend you or legally violate your profits and reputation over my sacrifice which is not legally standing? Are you now searching for some other legal recourse to stop me from interfering from you rightful legal profits? No problem Vivint, go ahead and throw this 19 year vet in jail and see how your profits skyrocket. Not only will that show your shallowness, it'll also clearly show your deceptiveness on your support on "VETERANS" except the ones you intentionally screw by your "legal means" as you see it by your legal rights.

Vivint, you've been called out. One hundred fifty one other vets and bloggers have this post waiting for you to slam me, sue me, throw me in jail, and shut me the f*ck up or get off the veteran bandwagon. I'll lay off. I promise as a non-commissioned officer who's word is better than any or  business legalities. I'll be watching and waiting.

My post on Vivint, Dec 2013:http://adventpersec.blogspot.com/2013/12/vivint-security-alarms.html

ABC News Post, May 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyiAMfU6Q8I

Was my 18 years of military service just spent for someone else's sole purpose of personal financial gain? What about my friends and brothers in arms who gave the ultimate sacrifice? Was it for some CEO and investors' profit? Is that what we Americans are fighting for?

P.S. Vivint, You must pay $5,120.00 for me to remove this post from my blog because your representative showed me this figure on his"official" Vivint paperwork. Sorry that the salesman is not an "official representative" but only a sub contractor who has no official capacity but, that is the only contract I have before me which I was deceived into signing. Sorry I cannot show it to you but, that is the legal agreement that was signed by your representative and not subject to scrutiny by any party herein included. When you pay the $5550.00. (administrative and processing fees included), I will remove it from this blog and notify the Better Business Bureau, The Consumerist, Consumer Reports, and Scam Businesses.com, and several other scam sites, to show the claim as "resolved". Please be advised that these are the legal terms as stated by US laws such as the ones you used on our US vets and and as such, don't necessarily mean that anything was actually resolved. It simply means that you made a lame attempt to contact your victim, probably via robo calls which you will probably attempt to consider a legitimate call to evade responsibility. All the while, without providing the promised services you actually promised laughing your a$$ off on the way to the bank.

By paying the $5,550.00 fee. Vivint must agree that we cannot fully guarantee that all derogatory posts against Vivint will be removed from internet sites as stated in this agreement once you have agreed and paid the fee. Advent, here as known as, the awesome company will make every effort to remove any and all derogatory and negative posts about Vivnint that have been posted by Advent Personal Security as known by it's known history of posting negative blog posts and review postings regarding the the deceptive claims made by Vivinit Seccurity Systems.

How do you like them apples Vivint? F*ck with one vet, you f*ck with all vets since from all branches of service since WWII and all true Americans. Is that worth a buck?

To my readers, feel free to search Vivint on YouTube and Google reviews: Formerly known as APEX.

Disclosure: I normally don't interject my personal feelings in my posts but this one is the exception as not only am I an Army vet but, I have lost friends in Iraq and Afghanistan and feel that this scam is the lowest form of  douchebaggery any American can do over the life of another American who sacrifices his or her life for the American way.

As a neutral researcher, I believe in being open and looking at both sides of every story. I personally dealt with Vivant and it was the only company I considered to having install a security system in my house even though I worked for a rival company a few years back. In theory, Vivint's system is awesome and have found many positive things about Vivint.  But, after a bit more research, I found that their monitoring was not only lacking, but their sales methods were a bit on the shady side. After some further research and talking to some Vivint owners, I found that the the company practices we geared more towards profits from monitoring rather than security. I was really disappointed because I thought I had found a good secure system but eventually came to find out that Vivint was only a re-branded company (APEX), that had changed names because of high customer complaints.

Although Vivint changed names, their sales and service practices hasn't really changed much. From this point on, I'll let you decide by doing some simple online research. I would like to ask any more vets or Americans who are willing to stand by side once again against this this greedy behemoth, to please contact me if and when when we must do battle against this anti vet greedy business.

Are You Being Watched?

Voyeurism

The act of one obtaining sexual gratification from observing unsuspecting individuals who are partly undressed, naked, or engaged in sexual acts; broadly :  one who habitually seeks sexual stimulation by visual means.

One of the crimes I despise most is voyeurism.  Not only does this crime violate peoples' privacy, the perpetrator goes the extra step and distributes this violation online for other perverts to further violate the victims' personal life. Imagine you most intimate moments captured on video and distributed online for others and possibly being exposed to the wrong people. Aside from extortion, the humiliation and questioning of your integrity is now in question. 

So how do you protect yourself from this perverted crime? Well, for starters, read the

Safety in a Hotel post here http://adventpersec.blogspot.com/2014/01/safety-in-hotel.html

Aside from being spied on in hotels and other places, you must consider places like your own home and other familiar places where webcams are installed. Since the advent of webcams, perverts with basic hacking abilities have figured out how to hack into commonly used webcams people use every day for security and other purposes. 

Webcams are great for many uses but unfortunately, developers did not consider security when developing the cams.  Therefore, many webcams out there are streaming video with absolutely no security from hacking or "tapping in". Since most webcams are connected to a computer, once a hacker gains access to your computer, the webcam is under full control of the hacker to turn on and off as he wishes.

What happens once this happens? It get's post online on sites such as, http://www.opentopia.com/ and http://www.insecam.org/ These are just two site where webcams are streamed but there are many many more.

The webcams on these sites have been easily hacked because most are not secured or password strength is easily guessed. Is your password strong enough? Or, are you more concerned with convenience. Are you willing to risk your webcam capturing your private moments? One simple solution is to cover your webcam lens with a piece of tape or disconnect it until you need to use it. 

Don't let your private moments go viral.