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recent bookmarks from jmSecurity Things to Consider When Your Apartment Goes ‘Smart’2019-01-29T22:14:31+00:00
https://tisiphone.net/2019/01/28/security-things-to-consider-when-your-apartment-goes-smart/
jmIf you’re a tenant in the US, it’s very likely that a management-provided smart home system is headed your way in the near future. Carefully evaluate your family’s personal threat model, and consider the plausible digital ways which these systems could be exploited.
Spend some time reading into the vendor. Respectfully and courteously encourage your property management company and their smart system vendor to adopt industry best practices in securing smart hubs physically and digitally, the networks they are connected to, and and resident data at rest and in transit in their infrastructure. Request your property managers clearly and decisively address privacy concerns such as data ownership and resale in writing. If solid answers in writing don’t assuage legitimate concerns, consider politely seeking an option to opt-out – and make your threat model clear to them, if you’re in a sensitive situation.
]]>locks iot security internetofshit tenancy renting smart-hubs smart-homes smart-lockshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:21715c193fd4/Bidding Website Rentberry May Be the Startup of Your Nightmares2017-04-04T11:02:27+00:00
https://gizmodo.com/bidding-website-rentberry-may-be-the-startup-of-your-ni-1793940693
jmA landlord lists a rental space and potential tenants bid against one another to claim the lease. Tenants’ personal information is available to the landlord. The landlord then makes their final decision by weighing what the best offer is along with which bidder seems like they’d be the best tenant
]]>grim-meathook-future horror renting rent tenancy rentberry libertarian homes startupshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:a8727f0dc8d9/Irish Water responds to landlords’ questions2014-10-16T13:36:38+00:00
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/irish-water-responds-to-landlords-questions-1.1946670
jm* Every rental unit in the State is to get a pack addressed personally to the occupant. If Irish Water does not have details of a tenant, the pack will be addressed to ‘The Occupier’
* Packs will only be issued to individual rental properties in so far as Irish Water is aware of them
* Landlords can contact Irish Water to advise they have let a property
* Application Packs are issued relative to the information on the Irish Water mailing list. If this is incorrect or out of date, landlords can contact Irish Water to have the information adjusted
*Irish Water will contact known landlords after the initial customer application campaign, to advise of properties for which no application has been received
* Irish Water said that when a household is occupied the tenant is liable and when vacant the owner is liable. Both should advise Irish Water of change of status to the property - the tenant to cease liability, the landlord to take it up.
Either party may take a reading and provide it to Irish Water, alternatively Irish Water will bill on average consumption, based on the date of change.
]]>irish-water water ireland liability bills landlords tenancy rentalhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:937615b4e177/Landlords not liable for tenants’ water bills2014-10-16T13:35:41+00:00
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/landlords-not-liable-for-tenants-water-bills-1.1944634
jmHowever the spokeswoman said application packs for rented dwellings would be addressed to the landlord, at the landlord’s residence, and it would be the landlord’s responsibility to ensure the tenant received the application pack.
Bills are to be issued quarterly, but as Irish Water will have the tenant’s PPS number, the utility firm will be able to pursue the tenant for any arrears and even apply any arrears to new accounts, when the tenant moves to a new address.
Last week landlords had expressed concern over potential arrears, the liability for them and the possibility of being used as collection agents by Irish Water.
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