Collaborate Disseminate
Many in the community are skeptical about the security of commercial smart home devices, and for good reason. It’s not like you have to look far to find examples of poorly implemented systems, or products that are abandoned by their manufacturers and left without critical security updates. But the design …read more
Continue reading Pop Open Your Neighbor’s Front Door With 12 Volts
It’s often said that necessity breeds creativity, and during a global pandemic such words have proved truer than ever. Realising the common doorbell could be a potential surface transmission point for coronavirus, [CasperHuang] whipped up a quick build.
The build eschews the typical pushbutton we’re all familiar with. Instead, it …read more
Continue reading Contactless Doorbell Built To Avoid Coronavirus
Thanks to low-cost WiFi enabled microcontrollers such as the ESP8266 and ESP32, it’s never been a better time to roll your own smart home system. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t daunting for new players. If you’re looking for an easy first project, putting your old school doorbell on the …read more
Continue reading The Easiest Way To Put Your Doorbell On The Internet
When it comes to hacks, we’re always amazed by the aesthetic of the design as much as we are by the intricacies of the circuit or the cleverness of the software. We think it’s always fun to assemble projects that were just sort of rigged up in our shop really …read more
[PatH] tells us that he tragically missed a craft beer delivery to his home, and vowed never to let this happen again. His problem was that he’d missed the doorbell, resulting in one of those annoying notes from the delivery guy. His solution? An ESP8266-driven doorbell detector, that both sends …read more
Amazon is following Google’s lead by forcing all users to use two-factor authentication when logging into their Ring accounts. Continue reading Ring makes 2FA mandatory to keep hackers out of your doorbell account
The Amazon-owned video doorbell uses third-party trackers to serve up rich data to marketers without meaningfully notifying users. Continue reading Ring Doorbell App for Android Caught Sharing User Data with Facebook, Data-Miners
We can imagine that the origin of the doorbell is truly ancient. if you lived in a cave, you probably had a stick and a rock nearby for people to get your attention without invading your cave. In 1817 a Scot named William Murdoch had a bell in the house …read more
It’s not only external hackers who pose a threat to the customer data that your company stores.
Continue reading Amazon Ring employees snooped on users’ security videos
Over the years we’ve seen several attempts at adding Internet connectivity to the lowly wired doorbell. Generally, these projects aim to piggyback on the existing wiring, bells, and buttons rather than replace them entirely. Which invariably means at some point the AC wiring is going to need to interface with …read more