D.I.Y. Home Security 377
theodp writes "The NYTimes reports that pre-wired home security installations by alarm companies are on the way out. Thanks to wireless window and door sensors and motion detectors, installing and maintaining one's own security system is becoming a do-it-yourself project, with kits available from companies like InGrid and LaserShield. Time to start cranking out some new iPhone and Android apps, kids?"
Stilll alive? (Score:3, Funny)
"Thanks to wireless window and door sensors and motion detectors, installing and maintaining one's own security system is becoming a do-it-yourself project, with kits available from companies like InGrid and LaserShield. "
Does any of them come with a portal turret?
Fail. (Score:2, Funny)
Watch the neighborhood kids set this off with a modded cordless phone...
Best reference I've found on D.I.Y. home security: (Score:5, Funny)
I'll stick with what I have.. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Wireless = less secure (Score:5, Funny)
1. Find a target house,
2. Use jamming enough times that the owner turns off the alarm.
3. Break in.
4. ???
5. Profit!
Re:I'll stick with what I have..A bible. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Wireless = less secure (Score:5, Funny)
We did something similar as a prank in high school. A lab had an microphone sensor, so we hid a watch in the casing. The school turned on the alarm at night about 8:30. The watch beeped and the cops showed at 9:00... then 10:00 then 11:00 then did not bother at 12:00. That's when we popped the window open and entered to play our prank in the "high security" lab.
Re:Wireless = less secure (Score:4, Funny)
While he was at work, a neighbor's house was broken into this spring. The burglars entered through his attached garage, and used the victim's own power tools to then open his safe right in his bedroom.
I'd say those burglars are keeping a lid on their costs.
( If they entered my house, with any luck they'd fix my circular saw for me before discovering I have no safe. )
The only thing I need. (Score:3, Funny)
Sharks.
With Lasers.
'Nuff Said.
Re:Stilll alive? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Wireless = less secure (Score:5, Funny)
OMG!!! *Rushes to patent office to patent Wireless Pants*
Easy, Cheap and Low-Tech (Score:2, Funny)
Prior Art (Score:3, Funny)
"Oh no Grommit, it's the wrong trousers!"
Re:Wireless = less secure (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Wireless = less secure (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Wireless = less secure (Score:3, Funny)
Get a first time headshot!
Mentally say "Headshot" as if it were counterstrike
Realise you've shot your 85 year old deaf granny bringing you round some cookies.
???
Profit?
D.I.Y. Home Security (Score:1, Funny)
It's so easy. Just need five colored lights.
Turn on the yellow one and be afraid. Turn on orange, and get even more scared. Etc.
Not D.I.Y. Homeland Security? Oh, sorry.
Re:Dog + Gun works good too... (Score:3, Funny)
My dog barks, I shoot.
Poor dog.
Re:Wireless = less secure (Score:3, Funny)
Let me guess (as per a pervious post of mine); you're not a thief, are you?
Not that you'd admit it on Slashdot.