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It's video surveillance, it makes it more likely they'll go elsewhere. That's literally the whole point of Ring.
by ezfe 1mo ago
It's video surveillance, it makes it more likely they'll go elsewhere. That's literally the whole point of Ring.
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- artisinal 1mo agoThen go for a CCTV system with local storage for the whole apartment complex instead of a cloud based personal surveillance system. Then you don’t need 5 cloud services and people can go back to knocking.
- HDBaseT 1mo agoWhen I break into peoples houses, I tend to take the NVR with me.
- NuclearPM 1mo agoNVR?
- necovek 1mo agoNetwork Video Recorder, a name for devices where IP cameras stream their video to to be stored on, usually, a hard disk drive. Same thing as DVR for analog surveillance cameras, just with eth (usually PoE) ports.
- KPGv2 1mo agoPeople who break into houses are going for a few obvious high-dollar items. They're not searching for a server closet they don't know exists. They're looking for laptops, pharmaceuticals, jewelry. High dollar, portable items. not a strange-looking device hidden in a closet. And obviously you can put it in a rack that requires a key to open. They won't bother.
- The_Blade 1mo agoAI has driven so many highly paid software professionals into the Your Friends and Neighbors lifestyle
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- artisinal 1mo agoThen hide the NVR in a locked utility room of the apartment complex.
- AngryData 1mo agoPeople always say this, but is there any evidence it is true? Home burglars aren't exactly the cream of the criminal crop.
- cube00 1mo agoTake a walk around the neighbourhood, plenty of houses still don't have any video surveillance. There's no shortage of footage of people casing a place spotting the camera then wondering away. The smart ones look like they're any other lost delivery driver complete with package in hand. Thanks to the rise of gig work nobody has uniforms anymore. No that it really matters, plenty of stolen uniforms in play too.
- teiferer 1mo agoAnecdata is not helpful. Actually statistically significant numbers that are not presented by a home security firm. Everything else is just somebody trying to sell you stuff.
- Aurornis 1mo agoFrom everything I've seen (which was a lot for a couple years due to my job) there were two types of burglars: One type didn't care about any security system, even alarms. They would smash and grab as fast as they could and get out. They didn't have a plan other than to grab the first things that looked valuable. It might cost more to fix the building than to replace what they found. The other type was trying to play it smart. As soon as they noticed the cameras or indications of a security system they'd leave. Lots of videos where a person was detected, looks up at the cameras, and then slips away to go find another house. A lot of people start turning off alerts or never set them up properly, so they don't notice the second type of video unless they go looking.
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- soundworlds 1mo ago
- ifwinterco 1mo agoPhysical stuff (window bars and a security door) is much, much more effective for that logic. Burglars know they’ll probably be on CCTV somewhere anyway but nobody in their right mind is trying to smash through a security door or saw through some window bars when there’s a house up the street that doesn’t have them. Obviously there are downsides (cost, aesthetics) but those solutions actually work, I’m skeptical that a fancy subscription doorbell makes much difference
- swiftcoder 1mo ago> Physical stuff (window bars and a security door) is much, much more effective I've lived in a couple of countries where everyone has bars on all their windows due to perceived (in some case correctly, in other cases not) crime levels. It's... not great? I'd much rather live somewhere where I don't need to live in a prison compound.
- al_borland 1mo agoWhen I’m looking to move to a new area, I check out how much security the local banks have. The more there is between the customer and the bank teller, the worse the area. Comcast offices can also be a good litmus test for this. When McDonalds has bullet proof glass… you probably don’t even want to stop to eat there, let alone live there.
- OGWhales 1mo agoI don't find surveillance cameras better in that regard. I think physical security can look decent too, like wrought iron window security bars can actually look quite nice imo.
- swiftcoder 1mo ago> I don't find surveillance cameras better in that regard Yeah, that's fair. I do prefer living somewhere that requires neither.