How can you tell if your alarm company's...

[Harmon Seaver]

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.)
> > - I think the answer to your question is that it would be reasonable (and
> > trivial) to roll your own alarm system.
> 
> But it's not trivial to roll your own 24/7 monitoring company with the ability 
> to call in the cops.  If the monitoring company is compromised, you're 
> \033653337357 anyway, but without them, all you have is one of those car 
> alarms that everyone ignores.

   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. That
means that, yes, if some dimwit middleschool kid is doing the job, the cops get
called, otherwise no. 

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Harmon Seaver	
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