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Actually if you were a burglar you'd likely be a teenager out for the thrills or a drug addict and the most you'd do is see if anyone or a dog was home before k
by kasey_junk 10y ago
Actually if you were a burglar you'd likely be a teenager out for the thrills or a drug addict and the most you'd do is see if anyone or a dog was home before kicking in the door.
Burglary rates have cratered not because of security systems but because people don't have things that are easy to trade for cash.
Unless it's jewelry, cash or guns it has virtually no value sold hot.
- scurvy 10y agoStolen documents are a goldmine to identity thieves.
- edoceo 10y agoEasier ways than a B&E
- scurvy 10y agoDepends on whose documents you're after
- tedunangst 10y agoWhat percentage of identity theft is the result of burgled documents?
- redtexture 10y agoThe lost credit card number, whether from a wallet or a web site.
- scurvy 10y agoNot sure, but a stolen (some say give away by disgruntled postal carrier) USPS key was used to break into dozens of mailboxes in a very affluent zip code in San Francisco (Nob Hill and Russian Hill). It must have been very lucrative for the pair of thieves. Also scary that a single key works across an entire zip code.
- xj9 10y agobeing a drug addict isn't mutually exclusive with having other skills. I wouldn't have been above something like this if my salary (software engineer) hadn't been able to cover my habits.
- kasey_junk 10y agoGranted. This wasn't a commentary on who is likely to have the skills, it was a commentary on the value of time. If you can pull of electronic surveillance you can make a lot more money doing that than B&E's.
- M_Grey 10y agoTeenager and "person who would hack your security camera" strikes me as having lots of overlap.