Opinion
Tech-savvy burglars across the U.S. are increasingly using Wi-Fi jammers to disable wireless security systems like Ring and Nest before breaking into homes. These small, inexpensive devices block signals from security cameras and alarms, leaving homeowners unaware of intrusions. Cases in Los Angeles and Seattle highlight how even high-profile victims—including star athletes—have been targeted. Security experts warn that wireless systems are vulnerable to these attacks and recommend hard-wired security setups, layered physical protections (lights, alarms, reinforced doors), and privacy measures like removing personal info from online databases.
This is the sort of thing that the “Just call 911, then relax” Crowd won’t confront, nor even admit is happening here and now.
Foreign VCA’s (South American and African gang-members, in this country illegally) are currently using WiFi jamming devices as they proceed to commit violent crimes, so that victims can’t reach police, nor fire/rescue services, for help.
“Unusual,” maybe here, but certainly not for violent criminals (and their victims) in South America. Criminals in many South American and African countries are known for cutting phone lines and for their routine use of jamming devices that simultaneously disable CCTV cameras and cell phones.
So much for naively assuming that rescue is “just a phone-call away!” Such assumptions are, in reality, naive delusions that dissolve in the face of hard reality.
In addition, LE agencies nationwide are critically short-staffed. What used to be fast EMS response-time is now a thing of the past.
“Technology” is a fine addition to any security plan, but ultimately ever-present lethal force, at the user level, always represents “the bottom line.”
When that cell phone is the only tool in your toolbox, you’ve painted yourself into a corner, as we see!
“There is no greater danger than underestimating your opponent.” ~ Lao Tzu.
/John
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Cellphone and WiFi jammers have become the norm. I taught this years ago when gangs started using them. Anything that gets a signal should be assumed to be compromised by at least one government agency, one foreign agency, one private company and eventually a hacker or criminal. Also assume it’s not just under your control. This includes vehicles. Turning these off is meaningless as well. They can all be remotely turned back on.
Along with not always being reliable this is why I hardwired my whole house when it was being built. While I do have a Ring doorbell, all my security cams are hardwired.
I can’t do much about it when I am not home but when I am, my dog can warn me and my gun can beat out any and all alarm jamming devices that the once breathing dead men/her/it, will have brought!
Despite cameras and security, I remain an armed light sleeper and armed while awake!
Is Lao Tzu the brother of Sun Tzu?
This is the sort of thing that the “Just call 911, then relax” Crowd won’t confront, nor even admit is happening here and now. . According to newsweek, only 27% of phones have any sort of landline. Of those, 5-7% are estimated to be VOIP that relies on fixed wireless access. So, as little as 20% of the US population has a landline. . When these jammers are deployed, calling 911 will not work. You will not be able to contact the police until after the criminals are gone, assuming you are still alive.. . But, shooting a few rounds… Read more »
Low Tech “Night Vision”, FREE. Older smartphones can ‘see” in InfraRed. It was actually cheaper to not bother with filtering out IR and so most smartphone camera manufacturers opted to save money. Go ahead, charge up an old smartphone out of your “junk drawer”, run the built-in “camera” app on it, and use it to look around at things, like perhaps the business end of your older TV remote controls and such that use IR emitting LED’s to communicate with your TV / DVR / etc.. Looking through your old smartphone’s camera app, you can SEE the IR LED’s blinking… Read more »
The “DeAuth” command. Wireless cameras that use 2.4GHz are tne most susceptible as there is a simple “DeAuth” command that can be transmitted openly to disable them. It can NOT be ignored unless the camera’s programming has been modified to specifically do so. SOME Newer 2.4GHz cameras and SOME older 2.4GHz cameras have had their firmware updated to ignore the “DeAuth” command. The vast majority however, have not. 5GHz wireless cameras have the security option (WSA3 ???) to select security protocol option that EXCLUDES the “DeAuth” command and is thus safer. The “jamming” tool commonly sold on the internet does not… Read more »
The bigger issue, is whether the NSA would disable or hack those systems which politically undesirable citizens may have.
Remember the Republicant’s big beautiful Patriot Act giving the feds “authority” to go through and collect all your computer and phone data.