innocence ignored

For a spy, simple things cannot be ignored. Let me give you an example.
Your lights start to flicker sporadically in the house. You call your power company and they will get back to you. The power company shows up, looks in the box outside your
house, notices sparking. They turn off the power, fix it and all is well.

Reality
1. You wake up and lights are flickering. What has really happened is during the night
the box was sabotaged so that access could be gained.This takes slight tradecraft
to make sure the box looks untouched.

2. Once reported to the power company, a worker shows up 20 minutes later. They
just happened to be close by at another house. The power is turned off and problem
fixed in 5 minutes. The box has a new tamper lock put back on so you
are not tempted to look inside. A bug sweep will be done later.
Note: As it should be, the security monitoring company called, as they
should. I told them the power went out.

3. Everything is normal. You are so glad a potential fire was averted, you do not question
anything.

Mistakes were made.
Never a problem in 32 years. Normally okay
but not when it is fixable in 5 minutes.

The power company just happens to be nearby.
okay except the power company called my cell
to ask about the issue while the worker was here.

The security company failed to ask for my password. I could have been anybody.

Well all in the day of a spy. Time to sweep for bugs.