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If robbers are cutting your power lines before entering your house like a scene out of Panic Room, you have bigger problems. For people who don't have any secu
by derekdahmer 13y ago
If robbers are cutting your power lines before entering your house like a scene out of Panic Room, you have bigger problems.
For people who don't have any security system at all because they are too complicated, unfriendly and expensive, this is a great way for them to add a basic level of security and awareness into their home that they didn't have before.
- apendleton 13y agoYou're right; that was a little movie-plot-threat-esque. Something that might be more realistic: what's to stop someone from waiting until the power goes out to rob me? And yes, I recognize that something is better than nothing. I was motivated to post by two things: firstly, my security system comes with a battery backup, and my sense is that this is a standard feature. I assume if that didn't provide useful additional security, it wouldn't be a standard feature. Secondly, if you're going to have a side-by-side table that lists a bunch of ways your security product is better than the industry-standard product with which it's meant to compete, as they do on their indiegogo (going so far as to call current technology "broken"), you should be honest if it does so by being less secure. They imply an equivalence that isn't justified.
- ynniv 13y agoNo it's not. If you live in a detached house your phone line, power, water, cable, etc, is readily accessible from outdoors. I've never robbed a house, but it seems pretty prudent to cut those things with an axe before you enter. Maybe thieves aren't doing that because security systems are commonly battery backed? They would have to be cellular as well. I'm not sure, but your original concern does not seem far fetched.
- lutorm 13y agoThey don't actually need to cut it. There's usually a master breaker by the meter, so you can just switch it off.