- Mar 22, 2013
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A while ago I had a taxi driver help me with bringing something I purchased home and carry it up the stairs. While driving home we were chatting, and something was said on the radio, about prisons or whatever, and he made like a noise, like pff, and anyway he told me he'd been in jail before. When we came in my place, he just opened my bedroom door, saw a bunch of computers. I told him yeah work stuff, but I'm gonna sell the computers because it's not really going well.
The other day I had 2 plumbers come over, and I could just smell the shit on them. Just totally suspicious dogs to me. Anyway they were only in the living room, but they did come in and look around.
Recently I had a kitchen installed, that's 3 dudes that came over a few time and stayed for a few hours. I like 2 of them were cool, the 3rd one the little guy was a bit suspicious. But this may just be me judging a book by its cover.
Anyway...
I live in an apartment and I'm starting to think about security. It's not like I have 100 bitcoins sitting in my closet, but, I have a pencil over on the table and I'd like it to stay on the table no matter what.
Now, when one thinks security I guess one thinks of cameras. But first of all, the camera won't help if a guy puts a sock on his head. The way a camera would help is to deter a thief, however, it could also invite a thief because if you're the only one with cameras in the entire building, block, city, then that may indicate you have something valuable you're trying to protect. So it's a double-edged sword. I guess the only camera that would make sense is a hidden camera, so that way if anything goes down and the thief doesn't know there are cameras he or she may not hide their face, and then you got em.
Next, the door. That's the big one. I guess there's 2 potential problems there.
First is having a door that's strong enough and mounted in a way to where the strongest man on earth couldn't break it if he kicked it and smashed it with a hammer 100,000 times. That goes for literally ripping a hole in the door, or breaking it off on the hinges, the screws where the door is screwed into the wall.
The second issue is the lock. Now this is fucked because a guy that knows how to open a door can open a door, right? I mean I guess you can go all modern and do some weird digital fingerprint shit, but that also looks out of place, and that can be hacked. But there's no need to be paranoid, it's not like we have 100 bitcoins here or that anyone is out to get us (as far as we know). But there has to be locks that a burglar can open in 2 minutes by sticking something in the lock and pressing a button, and locks that a burglar would have to camp in front of the door for 2 hours trying to get it just right to get it to open.
Then we have windows. I'm on the first floor, but pretty up high. However, if you really cared you could get a tall ladder and have your buddy hold it for you while you climb up. Now, 2 of my windows are just windows. There's like blinders, then the net for the bugs, and then the actual PVC windows. So let's say the blinder is closed. You'd have to pick it up, and it's heavy. The net for the bugs is locked from the inside, but a strong push would probably rip out the plastics that hold it in place and get it to open, and once it opens it rolls up and stays open. And now you have the window. So the consideration here is, is the glass strong enough to prevent someone breaking it by hitting it with whatever. The second consideration is, would someone who knows windows somehow be able to open it from the outside. You know, break the plastic here, unscrew this screw here, move this little metal thing here, bada bing, bada boom, window opens.
Then there's the balcony. That's worse because once you're up there you're not standing on a ladder risking a fall that could break multiple bones in your body or even kill you. Now you're looking at the balcony door, and 1 window which is comfortably large enough for you to go through, if you can open it. Let's say the blinders are closed, you pick them up and hold them up. You rip up the net. And now it's just a matter of either breaking the glass, or kicking the window in by brute force, or opening it "intelligently" by unscrewing shit and whatnot. Here we're still talking windows and glass like before, except now you're standing on the blacony and can kick and hit and break things and work more easily to try and enter. One thing that I saw a neighbor has like glass that he can close the balcony with. I like that because it would make it harder for anyone to get on the balcony, but also for other reasons, like protection from rain and snow if clothes are drying on the balcony etc.
I'm not gonna talk about someone kidnapping you or waiting outside of your door to smack you over the head as you're exiting your place. That's a consideration, but that goes to gyms muscles knives guns pepper sprays zappers etc, and I'm not quite there yet. So let's leave that out of this...
I wasn't planning on writing such a long thread when I started writing, it just sort of got away from me
So what do you guys think about all this? Like, I guess one could call a security company and throw all these doubts at them, and get them to check everything and alleviate your doubts and concerns. However, it's like if you get a builder to build you a secret compartment in your house or an exit tunnel. You gotta kill the motherfucker when he's done, because no one can know. Well, if a security company installs the shit for you, they'll know, and we can't have that, we're not in the murder business.
So I guess the best way is to figure it all out yourself and install everything yourself. I mean you don't have to install it yourself, you can have a guy install your door for you. But he won't necessarily know your door is reinforced titanium whatever bla bla unbreakable stardust type door that will still be standing even if the building collapses. He's just installing a door for you. Or if you change the lock and you call a guy to do it. He's just installing a lock, he doesn't know it would take 10 super computers and team of scientists working around the clock for 3 days in order to open it without a key. You see where I'm going with this.
So anyway, the thread just keeps going, so I'm gonna stop now. Give me what you got?
The other day I had 2 plumbers come over, and I could just smell the shit on them. Just totally suspicious dogs to me. Anyway they were only in the living room, but they did come in and look around.
Recently I had a kitchen installed, that's 3 dudes that came over a few time and stayed for a few hours. I like 2 of them were cool, the 3rd one the little guy was a bit suspicious. But this may just be me judging a book by its cover.
Anyway...
I live in an apartment and I'm starting to think about security. It's not like I have 100 bitcoins sitting in my closet, but, I have a pencil over on the table and I'd like it to stay on the table no matter what.
Now, when one thinks security I guess one thinks of cameras. But first of all, the camera won't help if a guy puts a sock on his head. The way a camera would help is to deter a thief, however, it could also invite a thief because if you're the only one with cameras in the entire building, block, city, then that may indicate you have something valuable you're trying to protect. So it's a double-edged sword. I guess the only camera that would make sense is a hidden camera, so that way if anything goes down and the thief doesn't know there are cameras he or she may not hide their face, and then you got em.
Next, the door. That's the big one. I guess there's 2 potential problems there.
First is having a door that's strong enough and mounted in a way to where the strongest man on earth couldn't break it if he kicked it and smashed it with a hammer 100,000 times. That goes for literally ripping a hole in the door, or breaking it off on the hinges, the screws where the door is screwed into the wall.
The second issue is the lock. Now this is fucked because a guy that knows how to open a door can open a door, right? I mean I guess you can go all modern and do some weird digital fingerprint shit, but that also looks out of place, and that can be hacked. But there's no need to be paranoid, it's not like we have 100 bitcoins here or that anyone is out to get us (as far as we know). But there has to be locks that a burglar can open in 2 minutes by sticking something in the lock and pressing a button, and locks that a burglar would have to camp in front of the door for 2 hours trying to get it just right to get it to open.
Then we have windows. I'm on the first floor, but pretty up high. However, if you really cared you could get a tall ladder and have your buddy hold it for you while you climb up. Now, 2 of my windows are just windows. There's like blinders, then the net for the bugs, and then the actual PVC windows. So let's say the blinder is closed. You'd have to pick it up, and it's heavy. The net for the bugs is locked from the inside, but a strong push would probably rip out the plastics that hold it in place and get it to open, and once it opens it rolls up and stays open. And now you have the window. So the consideration here is, is the glass strong enough to prevent someone breaking it by hitting it with whatever. The second consideration is, would someone who knows windows somehow be able to open it from the outside. You know, break the plastic here, unscrew this screw here, move this little metal thing here, bada bing, bada boom, window opens.
Then there's the balcony. That's worse because once you're up there you're not standing on a ladder risking a fall that could break multiple bones in your body or even kill you. Now you're looking at the balcony door, and 1 window which is comfortably large enough for you to go through, if you can open it. Let's say the blinders are closed, you pick them up and hold them up. You rip up the net. And now it's just a matter of either breaking the glass, or kicking the window in by brute force, or opening it "intelligently" by unscrewing shit and whatnot. Here we're still talking windows and glass like before, except now you're standing on the blacony and can kick and hit and break things and work more easily to try and enter. One thing that I saw a neighbor has like glass that he can close the balcony with. I like that because it would make it harder for anyone to get on the balcony, but also for other reasons, like protection from rain and snow if clothes are drying on the balcony etc.
I'm not gonna talk about someone kidnapping you or waiting outside of your door to smack you over the head as you're exiting your place. That's a consideration, but that goes to gyms muscles knives guns pepper sprays zappers etc, and I'm not quite there yet. So let's leave that out of this...
I wasn't planning on writing such a long thread when I started writing, it just sort of got away from me
So what do you guys think about all this? Like, I guess one could call a security company and throw all these doubts at them, and get them to check everything and alleviate your doubts and concerns. However, it's like if you get a builder to build you a secret compartment in your house or an exit tunnel. You gotta kill the motherfucker when he's done, because no one can know. Well, if a security company installs the shit for you, they'll know, and we can't have that, we're not in the murder business.
So I guess the best way is to figure it all out yourself and install everything yourself. I mean you don't have to install it yourself, you can have a guy install your door for you. But he won't necessarily know your door is reinforced titanium whatever bla bla unbreakable stardust type door that will still be standing even if the building collapses. He's just installing a door for you. Or if you change the lock and you call a guy to do it. He's just installing a lock, he doesn't know it would take 10 super computers and team of scientists working around the clock for 3 days in order to open it without a key. You see where I'm going with this.
So anyway, the thread just keeps going, so I'm gonna stop now. Give me what you got?
