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Originally Posted by Catlady
Am I understanding correctly that if a friend and I both enabled Drop In, I could connect to that device and eavesdrop/watch without the other person even being home to accept my invasion? That's incredibly creepy.
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If the friend explictly enables the feature, and explicitly grants you permission, then yes you can listen to the friends empty house.
Of course if someone WAS there, they'd hear the drop in chime and see the device is lit up while you were connected. Actually, I find the "who's available" active device part of the feature far creepier. ("I know you just got home.. where have you been...?")
Otherwise the thing is just like an intercom or baby monitor or any of various other kinds of sound monitoring devices your friend could have agreed to let you put in that house for many years. Decades ago I had an answering machine that could do that. It was billed as some sort of security feature.