Harmon Seaver said:
> But how important is that anyway? Most any half competent burglar knows
>enough to cut the phone wire before the B&E, so they don't get called.
A local alarm company here (Alarmforce) advertises an "extra" to their basic
package: a backup cellular phone link to th
Roy M. Silvernail said:
>But it's not trivial to roll your own 24/7 monitoring company with the ability
>to call in the cops.
>From what I hear, indoor marijuana grow-ops that are alarmed with hand-rolled
systems often activate a pager. In that case you DO NOT want the cops to come.
As an asi
On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 08:52:32AM -0400, Roy M. Silvernail wrote:
> On Saturday 09 August 2003 02:01, John Kozubik wrote:
> > On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Tyler Durden wrote:
> > > ...in cahoots with the "authorities"?
> >
> > Most intelligent and savvy people I know "roll their own" Tivo (PVR, etc.)
> > -
On Saturday, Aug 9, 2003, at 19:29 US/Central, Tim May wrote:
I figure that for a few thousand dollars and a spare laptop or two I
could have a system very resistant to cutting phone or power lines,
and something which would make surreptitious entry teams think twice.
(Leave a couple of the 802
Add your own 2nd alarm system. You can even use the sensors of your
existing one to interface with a computer (just the sensors, mind you, not
the actual controllers.) Got a DSL line? Got a modem? Got a cell phone?
Got a pager? Got network capable cameras?
Got access to another computer o
Spooks & Physical IDS:
If you are specifying a "roll your own security system",
you probably want to make a distinction between
building an "alarm company" and a "physical intrusion
detection and logging" system. With the former you're
hoping to keep your items; with the latter you're
trying to ke
..in cahoots with the "authorities"?
In other words, lets say I leave my house for an extended period of time,
and "they" tell the Alarm Monitoring company to shut down for a while so
they can protect our freedoms. (I assume this is the way they would go about
installing various things in one's
On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Tyler Durden wrote:
> ...in cahoots with the "authorities"?
Most intelligent and savvy people I know "roll their own" Tivo (PVR, etc.)
- I think the answer to your question is that it would be reasonable (and
trivial) to roll your own alarm system.
-
John Kozubik [EMAIL
>From what I've heard (not confirmed) most of this stuff is either simple
sensors (continuity test) or it talks over a variant of rs422 -
unencrypted for things like keypads. Not good, especially if these are
accessible on the outside.
--Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--
On Saturday 09 August 2003 02:01, John Kozubik wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Tyler Durden wrote:
> > ...in cahoots with the "authorities"?
>
> Most intelligent and savvy people I know "roll their own" Tivo (PVR, etc.)
> - I think the answer to your question is that it would be reasonable (and
> triv
The alarm and security specialists we've talked to claim the
greatest threat to systems are authorized users: the property
owners, their children, employees, servants, nearly all of whom
fail to arm and disarm the system properly not matter how
carefully instructed.
A false alarm is feared by the
On Saturday 09 August 2003 07:29 pm, Tim May wrote:
>
> Cellphones are cheap enough, and monthly charges are small enough when
> N machines share the same monthly account charge (Dad, Mom, Johnnie,
> Suzy, and Alarm). I would be surprised if today's alarm companies
> already aren't making good use
> How can I tell if my alarm has been "down" for a period of time, assuming I
> don't believe the records of the alarm company in such cases?
There is a plethora of various devices suitable for an alarm system, both
off-the-shelf and homemadeable.
You can cheaply roll out a camera system with a
On Saturday, August 9, 2003, at 04:23 PM, Harmon Seaver wrote:
On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 08:52:32AM -0400, Roy M. Silvernail wrote:
On Saturday 09 August 2003 02:01, John Kozubik wrote:
On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Tyler Durden wrote:
...in cahoots with the "authorities"?
Most intelligent and savvy people I
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