> Minnesota doesn’t generally have a reputation as a hotbed for technology I don't understand why Minnesota is catching strays for a problem that affects the e

> Minnesota doesn’t generally have a reputation as a hotbed for technology I don't understand why Minnesota is catching strays for a problem that affects the entire country. The hot new tech is the problem here, not Mark Tyson's cute naive northerner strawmen. Companies like ADT hopped on the IoT bandwagon because it's cheaper and it gives the sheen of advanced technology. In reality, wireless security systems are far more vulnerable than their older, wired alternatives. You can jam them. They can simply drop connections on their own due to interference. Many of them rely on cloud services that introduce their own points of failure (that's not really Wi-Fi's fault, but with one form of bullshit usually comes the other). Edina is notorious in the Twin Cities because it's where the old money lives - it's immensely wealthy compared to almost everything surrounding it. 100% of the blame rests on the companies taking rich-person home security budgets, and using it to install low-end Wi-Fi cameras. The victims here could certainly afford a wired solution, and I'd hazard a bet that they paid enough that a wired system could have been installed.