Eero and other extenders are being maliciously used in residential settings by bad actors to harass and turn over properties. The problem isn't exfiltration so much as using Eero with other access points to dump rogue sound on the devices of a neighboring house. Eero and other extenders are deployed in a manner that puts them over household infrastructure like AT&T NIDs, unused coaxial on the sides of houses and even electric meters and routers. I keep WiFi off and suspect that mesh networking allows another router to funnel data into my environment. I had professional heat maps done that show Eero 2.4GHz and 5GHz nodes around and over my house and giving access to rogue sound transmitted using cell phones from, for example, a parking strip of a neighborhood watch captain. The integration between Sonos and Eero seems to be used to great advantage -- I have ample Airtool captures showing sound between deployed to the Eeros that overlay my home and services and rebroadcast. I now suspect a powerline connection made be used to ensure that all my household wiring is enlisted in the transport of rogue sound. At my Seattle home, the infrasound dropped significantly when I had an old Comcast service box and coaxial removed. This kind of harassment is easily remoted via hot spots and conveniently parked cars and when I found the same harassment occurred when I began staying in my childhood home in the Bay Area, removing coaxial there was also useful and I found that the NID on that house was also being used when I had it removed, for sound in a higher range, it seems. I've seen other kinds of extenders such as TP-Link extenders which appear to be used to put WiFi signal on electrical lines and push signal inside, but Eero seems to play a key role in this type of harassment, perhaps because of the mesh network capabilities. I suspect that the Eero and other extenders may be able to connect to the access points and unadvertised SSIDs that Comcast and AT&T also provide or, with proximity to a target home, Eero deployment as an access point from which to transport rogue sound into someone's environment by physical networking and close-range transmission is sufficient.

I work in tech, have worked at a security company, and I am well aware of companies' interests in customer security. But what seems to be missing is our ability to assess the risk of the devices that are created and sold to be maliciously used against people who are not customers. In the case of cyber- or digital harassment, much of it is ignored because police don't know how to approach it and the belief is that those who do it are strangers whose anonymity is protected by network proxies, encryption and the like. This seems to have created an incredible opportunity for scams in the neighborhood, especially with IoT. In my case, this behavior represents the confidence of criminals and scammers that no one can "see" what they're doing. This is not true. Heat mapping can show the malicious deployment of extenders and how they are being used in crime. This kind of crime illustrates the lack of security of our homes, our residential infrastructure, and ultimately the grid. If your neighbors can use WiFi extenders and mesh networking to affect your devices, your network, and even your electrical system, so too can any terrorist.

I have a large amount of data and believe that what is happening to me can be mitigated by the creation of artificial intelligence. I have remained in an intolerable situation long enough to collect this data and to figure out how much of it works. I would like companies like Eero to help to ensure that their products are not used to effectively commit IoT crimes or acts of domestic terrorism. When digital harassment is taken up by hate groups, malevolent neighborhood watch groups or is made part of a business plan by real estate speculators, it's time for companies to assess security in terms of the impact of the products they make on people who are not their customers -- the greater community.

These screenshots show my home in Seattle and how my neighbors, who appear to be house flippers working in concern with the neighborhood watch, deployed your product. I considered adding but refrained from adding a Netspot survey that shows how at least four nodes were operating as the PowPow SSID and the Eye P.A. analysis showing the Sonos devices residing on the Eero nodes that are also identified by MAC vendor IDs. Note the open access points across the street. I think this is what some people who do not see the deployment of extenders consider to be "dashcam harassment." Unfortunately, it's worse -- it's infrastructure harassment or a means of putting rogue sound -- cyber-harassment -- on every device in a person's home using any copper wire on which transport is supported by a protocol.