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Burglars are Jamming Wi-FI Security Cameras


An anonymous reader shared this report from PC World: According to a tweet sent out by the Los Angeles Police Department's Wilshire division (spotted by Tom's Hardware), a small band of burglars is using Wi-Fi jamming devices to nullify wireless security cameras before breaking and entering. The t...

An anonymous reader shared this report from PC World: According to a tweet sent out by the Los Angeles Police Department's Wilshire division(spotted by Tom's Hardware), a small band of burglars is using Wi-Fi jamming devices to nullify wireless security cameras before breaking and entering. They have lookout teams, they enter through the second story, and they go for small, high-value items like jewelry and designer purses. But signal jammers are electronically simple and relatively easy to build or buy from less-than-scrupulous sources.

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