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Anyone on the Internet Can Ring Your Doorbell

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Re: Anyone on the Internet Can Ring Your Doorbell

#71
post #14

You could take a picture from the real footage, remove the people from it and insert yourself into the front yard. Then when they open the door act confused that you cant see them. edit: my doorbell resets if you hold it down for 10 seconds then it takes wifi credentials with a QR code and thinks you are it's new owner.

add in a "ghost"

Re: Anyone on the Internet Can Ring Your Doorbell

#72
post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well my curtains and light open and close on a schedule so they won’t tell them much. Also who can afford to drive to work anymore?

That didn't stop the thieves in Home Alone...

The thieves in Home Alone already knew that the family was gone.

Re: Anyone on the Internet Can Ring Your Doorbell

#73
post #68

Am I the only one who eventually got irritated by the LLM-like writing style? It's not quite the usual fare, but it became hard to ignore by the end.

Yes, I stopped reading here: > $12 on the front. Whole-network compromise on the back. Too bad since the topic on its own seems very interesting.

English is not my native language but I consider myself a fairly advanced speaker - I hold a C2 level language certificate, lived in London, etc.

These are exactly the kinds of sentences that would have gotten us outstanding grades as students of the language.

I used to be proud of sentences like the latter in the above quote. I can't fathom how learning languages will change in the coming years.

Re: Anyone on the Internet Can Ring Your Doorbell

#74
post #61

If you want to do some fun hacking project, Temu and similar websites are a trove of insecure cheap IoT devices made with almost 0 security consideration. Security camera, car chargers, sport tracking devices, etc. If you are a bad actor, that is also probably a very easy way to find new ways to enroll devices in your botnet.

I think they’re more secure by the virtue of being niche. Nobody will build an exploit chain to sniff for and target these devices.

Re: Anyone on the Internet Can Ring Your Doorbell

#75
post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, I stopped reading here: > $12 on the front. Whole-network compromise on the back. Too bad since the topic on its own seems very interesting.

English is not my native language but I consider myself a fairly advanced speaker - I hold a C2 level language certificate, lived in London, etc. These are exactly the kinds of sentences that would have gotten us outstanding grades as students of the language. I used to be proud of sentences like the latter in the above quote. I can't fathom how learning languages will change in the coming years.

Sentences with that structure might be praised but semantically it is nonsense.

Edit: except for prescriptivists who hate sentence fragments

Re: Anyone on the Internet Can Ring Your Doorbell

#76

I'd be shocked if the Ring doorbells were materially more secure. I sit firmly in the "only smart device is my printer and I keep a loaded gun next to it in case it makes a weird noise" camp.

Your printer doesn't make weird noises?

The original quote from 2019 is “an unexpected noise”:

• https://imgur.com/6wbgy2L>

• https://old.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/aloi5v/pro...>

Re: Anyone on the Internet Can Ring Your Doorbell

#77
post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, I stopped reading here: > $12 on the front. Whole-network compromise on the back. Too bad since the topic on its own seems very interesting.

English is not my native language but I consider myself a fairly advanced speaker - I hold a C2 level language certificate, lived in London, etc. These are exactly the kinds of sentences that would have gotten us outstanding grades as students of the language. I used to be proud of sentences like the latter in the above quote. I can't fathom how learning languages will change in the coming years.

> These are exactly the kinds of sentences that would have gotten us outstanding grades as students of the language.

Not at all? They are not even full sentences...

I get that you might like the style, but there is no need for hyperbole.

Re: Anyone on the Internet Can Ring Your Doorbell

#78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That didn't stop the thieves in Home Alone...

The thieves in Home Alone already knew that the family was gone.

Exactly my point, they just verified that the Christmas lights were on a schedule one last time before breaking in the other houses.

Re: Anyone on the Internet Can Ring Your Doorbell

#79

Can you actually access any of the doorbells on the internet with this? It reads to me like you need physical access to extract the signing keys etc over the debug port before you can actually impersonate the device

You can enumerate them against the API.

Re: Anyone on the Internet Can Ring Your Doorbell

#80
post #61

If you want to do some fun hacking project, Temu and similar websites are a trove of insecure cheap IoT devices made with almost 0 security consideration. Security camera, car chargers, sport tracking devices, etc. If you are a bad actor, that is also probably a very easy way to find new ways to enroll devices in your botnet.

So many of them are hosting some sort of server they /have/ to talk back to. Wouldn't be so bad if they just acted entirely self contained...

So the question is, what is the vendors benefit from running these servers.

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