On September 22, 2014, Bill Horne wrote: > 2. Every "home monitoring" system that's sold to civilians can be > disabled in seconds with a pair of wire cutters. Anyone who has > spent time in prison knows this trick: even amateurs will take the > phone off the hook and dial a nonsensical number, to disable > old-school burglar alarms which are tied to the phone line.
These days, home monitoring companies offer cellular-based backup systems that kick in if the phone line is busy or disabled. As long as the thief doesn't wrap your house in aluminium foil.... -- Dan Barrett dbarr...@blazemonger.com _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss