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If you get caught, there's no plausible deniability. No way to pretend you just got confused, or that you were in a hurry and just marked "Yes" and signed witho
by emiliobumachar 6y ago
If you get caught, there's no plausible deniability. No way to pretend you just got confused, or that you were in a hurry and just marked "Yes" and signed without reading.
If you were e.g. applying for state welfare while living out of state, a forged bill with an in-state address would not get you caught, but may be crucial for proving ill intent if you get caught by unrelated means.
A lot of security measures add just that much security. It's easy to break, but breaking it removes plausible deniability.
Most home locks wouldn't stop even a person slightly below average strength, bump it with your shoulder a couple times, and you're in. But you can't then claim you got lost, confused, or thought it was your friend's house, or thought you heard someone say "come in". A surprised homeowner will be less hesitant to use available violence, and no court would believe you meant no harm.
- rantwasp 6y agoyou are going to dislocate your shoulder if you bump the door. you should use your foot and you apply more pressure without breaking anything Here: https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/how-to-break-down-a-door/ https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/how-to-break-down-a-...
- emiliobumachar 6y agoThanks, that was interesting. And counter-intuitive, I generally worry more about injuring my knees than my shoulders.
- rantwasp 6y agoyou’re welcome! the good thing about this technique is that the load is distributed and it’s knee+hip. also because of the lower contact area you can deliver more force in the right area (ie the handle)
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- snowwrestler 6y agoThis is an aspect of security that a lot of smart technical folks seem to have problems reasoning about. Technical systems sit within cultural and legal systems, and it is the totality of all of those that shapes our behavior.
- owenmarshall 6y agoI am reminded of the amazing James Mickens and his talk on blockchain/cryptocurrency: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=15RTC22Z2xI https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=15RTC22Z2xI
- brownbat 6y agoSchuyler Towne has (several?) great talks on this, going through the history of physical security and our assumptions about perfect security vs. social and cultural symbols. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqjacHSTd48 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqjacHSTd48
- throwanem 6y agoThis is an aspect of society that a lot of smart technical folks seem to have problems reasoning about.
- Cthulhu_ 6y agoYup; home security will deter a quick grab, but if someone wants to come in they will. The main things there is, will it be noticed in the act (like how much noise will it cause), and will there be damage. If you get robbed with no damage or evidence of a break-in, insurance won't pay out. I mean me and my neighbours' houses have a big sliding glass door for a back door, one of the neighbours has had it yote in with a brick last year. Not even at night, it was in bright daylight. Probably had a laptop or something in view with nobody around.