If you buy yourself an occasional Nest Cam, you don't want the previous owner monitoring your home, but in some cases that's a possibility, according to reports. The vulnerability comes from a connection to the Wink smart home hub, Wirecutter reports. Based on the experiences of a Nest Cam user and some testing by Wirecutter, resetting a Nest Cam does not necessarily reset the Wink Hub link. This means you can still access the camera feed through a Wink account, even if the Nest Cam has been passed on to someone else. Not really the best-case scenario for a home security product. Google told Business Insider that it was aware of the issue and was considering a fix, but we don't know how quickly this fix can be implemented.
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Several third-party apps and services can connect to Nest Cams using the Works with Nest protocol, which, coincidentally, will be retiring soon for a Works with Google Assistant program. The main benefit is that your smart appliances can play together, even if they come from different manufacturers. That said, you don't want these connections to stay in place when you sell them to your Nest Cam. At the moment, there doesn't seem to be any way to disable the Wink connection on the Nest camera side. If you've bought Nest Cams in the past, the best advice we can give you is to leave them. off for now. Hopefully Google and Wink can find a way to cut the remote link in the near future. We will update this article as soon as it is done.