My sister, Rachel, asked me to watch her nine-month-old son while she and her husband attended a wedding out of town.<\/p>\n
Everything was normal until just after three in the morning.<\/p>\n
I was asleep on the couch when the baby monitor suddenly activated.<\/p>\n
My nephew, Owen, was still sleeping peacefully in his crib.<\/p>\n
Then I heard a man\u2019s voice.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s not okay.\u201d<\/p>\n
I sat straight up.<\/p>\n
At first, I thought the monitor had picked up interference from another house.<\/p>\n
Then the voice came again.<\/p>\n
Closer.<\/p>\n
I called Rachel immediately.<\/p>\n
The moment I described it, she went silent.<\/p>\n
Then she shouted, \u201cGet Owen. Go to your car. Lock the doors and call the police.\u201d<\/p>\n
I grabbed him without even changing his pajamas.<\/p>\n
Once we were safely outside, Rachel finally explained.<\/p>\n
Two weeks earlier, she had discovered someone had accessed the baby monitor through its internet connection.<\/p>\n
Her husband changed the password and reset everything, but they hadn\u2019t told me because they believed the problem was fixed.<\/p>\n
Police checked the house.<\/p>\n
Nobody was inside.<\/p>\n
The voice hadn\u2019t come from the bedroom at all.<\/p>\n
Someone had remotely connected to the monitor again.<\/p>\n
The next morning, Rachel\u2019s husband disconnected the device completely and contacted the manufacturer.<\/p>\n
They replaced it with a monitor that didn\u2019t connect to Wi-Fi.<\/p>\n
Owen had never been in immediate physical danger.<\/p>\n
But hearing a stranger\u2019s voice inside a sleeping baby\u2019s room was enough to change how all of us thought about home technology.<\/p>\n
Rachel kept apologizing for not warning me sooner.<\/p>\n
I told her the same thing every time.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust never assume a problem is gone because it got quiet.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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