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Troll headline. The flaw results in false positives. If jamming frequencies caused all the locks to disengage, that would "Open homes to thieves".
by 5h 11y ago
Troll headline.
The flaw results in false positives.
If jamming frequencies caused all the locks to disengage, that would "Open homes to thieves".
- chockablock 11y agoJamming disables the alarm sensors for (up to) hours, allowing thieves to break in undetected. I'd argue that this should be called a 'false negative' rather than a 'false positive', but in any event it's certainly a security risk.
- lost_my_pwd 11y agoI think you may have misunderstood. On my home security system, communication interruptions to a sensor are treated as a "bad" condition and alerts are sent with a comm warning. The system fails open. With the xFinity system, it fails closed, meaning that when a sensor loses connection, the system assumes everything is OK until it hears from the sensor again. An alarm/alert only occurs if a sensor affirmatively indicates a "bad" condition.