Episode Fifty-One - Honey! The Neighbors are Watching us Again!

At least in years past we could at least spot the neighbors as they tried to hide behind the shrubs in the garden, the curtains in the house, or ducked down below the fence line that separated each of our little slices of the American Dream....<br /><br />These days; however, things are a little more subtle (if the neighbors have been paying attention to the InfoSec world for more than 5 minutes...)<br /><br />Long gone are the days of just borrowing the neighbors wireless to launch an attack against the NSA through their cable provider (although it IS fun to see the black suburban roll up occasionally to their doorstep when you’re feeling mischievous..)<br /><br />Today’s targets for neighborhood “watching” vary across an entire spectrum of fun and games...<br /><br />I still feel slightly guilty about the 50-gallon barrel of lube my neighbors have, but “Hey Siri...” we just have to have some fun....<br /><br />I DO enjoy making their microwave go off in the middle of the night, although they've replaced it a few times now, and the electrician doesn’t use Google Maps anymore to find them... amazing just how far away those WEMO plugs can be controlled from.<br /><br />Now, thankfully Xfinity allows themselves to provide “free” WiFi to anyone with account credentials, so it IS still possible to get directly TO their router (you’d think folks would update the things.... but no) and given I’ve got around 1,335,000 Xfinity account ID/Passwords I’m set for a LONG time before I must leave my own fingerprints...<br /><br />Oh, speaking of fingerprints, confession time... one of the neighbors has a RING doorbell, oh how we laughed when we changed out the screws during install and just last week got the doorbell to short circuit and burn ½ the place down... shame the fire alarms didn’t work, someone should REALLY unblock NEST’s fire alarms from the firewall and allow them to do their job. The video of the owners yelling “Hey Google FFS call the fire brigade” will be posted on YouTube later (thanks Arlo for the default acc