A Maryland man was recently locked out of his Amazon smart home system after a delivery driver reported hearing a racial slur while dropping off a package.
In a June 4 blog post on Medium, Brandon Jackson described his week-long ordeal of being locked out of the Amazon account he used to control many of the devices around his home.
Jackson described the incident as beginning rather innocuously when he tried to use his Amazon Echo Show; a device that can control a variety of connected smart home tools. Jackson first found himself locked out of the device on May 25, a day after receiving a delivery….