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To: John Walliker who wrote (11632)	4/9/2000 9:22:00 PM
From: Drew Williams	Read Replies (1) of 29986

John, I'm not much of a tech-weenie, but I could tell you how to beat just about any security system my company has installed. Back in the dark ages (the seventies) I won a $100 bet with the owner of the camera store I was managing that I could get through the front door (with a key, because we did not want to unnecessarily break anything) and out the back without setting off the alarm. The store had magnetic contacts on the doors and several motion detectors. It would not be nearly so easy today, at least not if I engineered the system, but a professional thief would know how. He'd start by cutting the phone lines that send the signal to the monitoring station. While most every alarm system has a battery backup in case the electricity goes out, pitifully few have wireless telephone backup, because it costs a few hundred dollars up front and $35 or so extra per month. Most car thefts like household burglaries are crimes of opportunity (80-90%.) They are not planned or executed by professionals. The teenager out for a joyride or junkie looking to make a quick score probably could not even spell GPS much less know what it is or how to beat it. For these thieves, it is almost true that the best defense against theft is an alarm company sticker on the window, just like the one on the mailbox post in front of my house. Seeing the sign, they just move on to the next car/house that does not have one. If a professional is doing the job, and he really wants to get in, he'll know exactly what to do so the alarm never goes off.

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