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nradovtoday at 3:09 AM3 repliesview on HN

What a weird comment. The type of low-end criminal who commits home burglaries aren't sophisticated enough to do that level of research.


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pm3003today at 7:31 AM

They are. A related example is criminal gangs tageting gun owners in France after the dataleak at the sport shooting federation. This one has been well covered. There have been a few hundred targeted robberies (on old people mostly) and one or two deaths (predictably).

In Western Europe there are also foreign burglar gangs that go on sprees for a few weeks. They're well organised but don't have time to do the stalking. They use publicly available data as much as they can.

teiferertoday at 7:21 AM

With the new crop of agentic coding tools, you can whip up such an app in a few hours for all burglar buddies to use.

poloticstoday at 6:12 AM

do you have any evidence to back your claim? gangs employing teams of underage burglars assisted by risk averse adults with skills for entry and targeting are a thing. everyone has a mobile phone.