A security system with wired cameras and sensors is key if you really want it secure. Wireless security sensors are many times easy to fool. And the ones on cheaper systems like SimpliSafe can be "deafened" by some pretty simple transmitters placed nearby. So having those wired cameras is pretty smart. Even though I work in the RF world our motto is if you can run a wire, run a wire... it is almost always better than using anything wireless.

I generally try to be smart and have cameras in key places. I worry less these days because the worst "crime" that happens near me is in the tiny town next to us and is apparently people parking at the deisel pumps when they have gasoline cars.. or someone parking their non EV near the 3 chargers in town The only actual crime I have heard of in the 3 years we have lived here was someone from another town that broke into a few cars in a housing development right by the main highway and took a few things out of the cars. They were caught and put in jail in a few days since they were noticed by so many and pictures were taken. If you hear gunshots around our place, you dont even really notice much because it is one of the neighbors (or me) target practicing on their property. I was more on my toes when I lived in the suburbs of a larger city. But there are common sense things I still do regardless of where I am. I have found one key thing is not to advertise what you have in terms of security. Harder for someone to figure out how to breach it if they dont know what you have. For example, I will never place the stickers and signs for a home security system around my house. Why tell people exactly what they need to get around to break in?

Our K9 is well past his guard dog days. He is 16 so his hearing is not nearly what it used to be so he is retired from that duty!

There are those simple things to like you mentioned. They physical barriers that slow down or prevent people from even getting to things. Our safe is hidden well enough that you would have to be tearing the house apart to even find it before you even knew to break into it so that creates its own delay and even may prevent a thief in a hurry from knowing it is there.

Kind of like you mentioned, I dont have any vehicles that most serious thieves with a flatbed would likely come after besides maybe the s2k, but even then, those level of thieves are likely looking elsewhere. I have the s2k and a handful of Toyotas because they last forever so my profile is pretty low in regards to attracting car thieves.

 

The takeaway I got from the article (and reading between the lines from the IT/dev front) is that Linux, and particularly, modularity via Docker (or your container of choice) has been the key differentiator from then until now. Also, Linux is not the hairy beast it once was, so you can make road-reliable (read: manufacturer-level insurable) modular software. Kudos to Drako for going greenfield with the thing, and not looking at every new part as a set of microcontrollers talking I2C or CAN-BUS.