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Timmy256
Oct 02, 2024Apprentice
RS700 Armor Registered to Old Account; Can't Remove
Hi there, I purchased this item straight from Amazon US. Had it for three months in, let's call it, "AccountA@gmail.com" in the Nighthawk app, with the 90 days of support and 1 year or Armor acti...
Timmy256
Oct 03, 2024Apprentice
Thanks DarrenM , I just sent you a message with the case number.
One thing I forgot to mention there, but that I documented in the case, is that this looks like a serious security issue. Imagine I was a bad actor, sold this router to somebody I wanted to try an attack on, telling them how this router with Armor will protect them and all that.
They register the product with their own account, but then I can keep controlling Armor from my original account, without any way to transfer over to them! So I could disable Armor and launch the attack on their network; while they were thinking they were being protected by your premium subscription.
To add more frustration to the “Pro Support” management in this, in the last message you will see, the canned response was “we can’t unregister Armor from the device because it’s been used for more than 30 days”. So… what? Now I need to wait a year to be able to transfer the router and have another person paying for Armor themselves? Shouldn’t your incentive be aligned with disabling already payed (trial) Armor right now, when the owner (me) is requesting this, in order to collect more money from a new subscription from the new customer I’m gifting the router to?
Thanks again Darren.
Timmy256
Oct 05, 2024Apprentice
Hi again DarrenM, I hope you are doing well.
Thanks for your help here. I think the case got escalated and I got an e-mail saying that “Armor has been cancelled”. Still, when I go to the Armor icon in the app / account where the router is registered, I still get the message saying “Your router is registed to XXX account, login there to manage Armor”.
In that XXX account, the router is not registered! Not as a product; nor should be registered for Armor (as I got that cancellation e-mail I just mentioned)! It’s still not working right and can’t manage Armor from the proper account; it’s still linked to the old one.
Could you please help me on this? They closed the case too right after send that e-mail, so they didn’t even gave me a chance to check and report back there.
Thanks again.