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andrepdlast Friday at 6:12 PM3 repliesview on HN

Is this even practical anymore? A non-technical person can set up video surveillance on their home for a couple hundred bucks. Why wouldn't a criminal do that? I think the days of the FBI planting a microphone in a lamp on Tony Soprano's basement are over.


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marginalia_nulast Friday at 8:11 PM

It's hard to set up video surveillance in your home without inadvertently providing much of the surveillance data the law enforcement officers were after, especially for non-technical people.

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fragmedelast Friday at 8:02 PM

I read in the papers that the cheap cameras are over wifi, so thieves are using wifi jammers to take them offline during the heist.

breppplast Friday at 8:45 PM

The FBI has an array of readymade zero day exploits, it is probably able to handle Tony Sporano's Chinese knockoff video survelliance