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This isn't the threat it is made out to be. Most homes are empty every day when people are at work. It isn't really necessary to perform advanced analysis to fi

by fegu 10y ago

This isn't the threat it is made out to be. Most homes are empty every day when people are at work. It isn't really necessary to perform advanced analysis to find an empty home.

freeflight 10y ago
Most homes, but not all homes, especially with home offices being an actual thing that's becoming more popular. I doubt many burglars want the risk of running into somebody during their "heist", so they will stake out possible targets. Staking out a target used to be time-consuming and a bit risky, because the burglar needed to be on location for quite some time to conduct surveillance themselves, in person. Now they can stake out multiple targets at the same time, from anywhere they want, with all the anonymity the Internets allow for.
- trprog 10y ago
  While the addition of anonymity would certainly be appreciated by would-be burglars you seem to be leaving out a small detail. It is trivially easy for a burglar to determine if someone is home. They can just walk up to the front door, knock and see if anyone answers. If someone is there ask for a glass of water, ask if they have accepted Jesus, ask if Steve lives there or whatever other BS excuse they have ready before simply moving on to another prospect. If no one comes to the door then the home is very likely empty and they can proceed. This has the added benefit for the burglar that anyone seeing them enter the property will assume they have good reason to be there. After all they marched straight up to the front door and rang the doorbell which is what non-thieves do so its less suspicious if they then go around the side of the house when no one answers.
  - ghaff 10y ago
    In some ways, this is just another class of "Thieves are following you on Twitter so don't let anyone know if you're going on a trip." Sure, for some high profile individuals, keeping your movements secret may make sense. But for most people this is sufficiently far down on the list of threats that it probably doesn't matter.

by fegu 10y ago

This isn't the threat it is made out to be. Most homes are empty every day when people are at work. It isn't really necessary to perform advanced analysis to find an empty home.

freeflight 10y ago

Most homes, but not all homes, especially with home offices being an actual thing that's becoming more popular. I doubt many burglars want the risk of running into somebody during their "heist", so they will stake out possible targets. Staking out a target used to be time-consuming and a bit risky, because the burglar needed to be on location for quite some time to conduct surveillance themselves, in person. Now they can stake out multiple targets at the same time, from anywhere they want, with all the anonymity the Internets allow for.

trprog 10y ago
While the addition of anonymity would certainly be appreciated by would-be burglars you seem to be leaving out a small detail. It is trivially easy for a burglar to determine if someone is home. They can just walk up to the front door, knock and see if anyone answers. If someone is there ask for a glass of water, ask if they have accepted Jesus, ask if Steve lives there or whatever other BS excuse they have ready before simply moving on to another prospect. If no one comes to the door then the home is very likely empty and they can proceed. This has the added benefit for the burglar that anyone seeing them enter the property will assume they have good reason to be there. After all they marched straight up to the front door and rang the doorbell which is what non-thieves do so its less suspicious if they then go around the side of the house when no one answers.
- ghaff 10y ago
  In some ways, this is just another class of "Thieves are following you on Twitter so don't let anyone know if you're going on a trip." Sure, for some high profile individuals, keeping your movements secret may make sense. But for most people this is sufficiently far down on the list of threats that it probably doesn't matter.