"burglarized" still makes me chuckle when I see it written.
(It is not a valid word in English).
edit: Yes, I know it's valid in American.
Burgled (English), Burglarized (American English).
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#62This is the ultimate free source of leads for home security and alarm businesses. Edit: They could drive around the neighborhood dropping off flyers saying, "While you were out at "place homeowner checked into" someone could have been robbing you blind.
There is a lot of money to be made in the lead generation business.
I actually heard of an auto repair lead generation company that went around to parking lots and took pictures of cars with damage. They uploaded these photos to their service and then put a flyer on the car with a web address where the person could retrieve the quotes for repairs.
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was thinking to myself, "Only single people twitter their whereabouts?" I've got plenty of people left in the house when I leave. I don't think leaving the house is as great a risk as some might think.
I'm in the habit of telling taxi drivers who pick me up from my house and ask me "so, you're going to the airport, taking a long trip?" That it's a short trip and that my roommates were just too lazy to take me to the airport. Makes me feel slightly better about someone knowing where I live and that I just left town.
Or you could have the taxi pick you up at a nearby intersection or other non-home location. Bonus points for using a different location each time.
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#64This is pretty awesome. I've never twittered when I'm away from my place for a long period of time. I don't post about it to facebook. And I don't set email auto-responders. I guess my inner criminal automatically notified me that were I actually in the job of stealing, I would definitely use social media to pick likely targets. In fact, generally no one knows I was away until I get back, short of close friends and f…
In fact, given how many people on that list have their twitters set up with their own names, I'd say it's probably easy to grab a name from a location, look them up in the phone book (first stop for addresses, or at least it was a long time ago). From there it's just a matter of making sure no one else is at the house.
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#65Awesome linkbait / PR execution by these guys. This has mainstream media potential - it's easy to imagine a hysterical CNN headline.
I hope they have a plan for how to put all this great buzz and inbound links to work on a real business.
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#66"Going on trip. Please break into my house - my St. Bernard needs feeding."
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's probably more like social engineering defense training. The usual scenario being: You're at a conference and a hooker type shows up at your hotel room out of the blue, do you a) invite them in and have a good time, especially leaving your laptop/files/etc alone with them while you sleep/clean up/get some liquor, b) not do that.
c) hide everything in the ventilation system and leave false laptop/files out as decoy
What, and be obvious?
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
Regarding spring guns, fun fact: it is illegal for you to make your home unsafe for burglars and other lawbreakers in most US states.
That's why I suggested them. Lots of illegal activity all at once makes for the best reading.
Next up: PleaseArrestMe.com, highlighting all the illegal activity that people have put up on teh intarwebs for public consumption.
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#69"burglarized" still makes me chuckle when I see it written. (It is not a valid word in English). edit: Yes, I know it's valid in American . Burgled (English), Burglarized (American English).
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/burglarize
Hmm. Which dictionary do you work for?
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4. Programmers write apps that no one ever asked for but may be able to use to minimize the consequences of widespread adoption of apps that no one ever asked for but may be able to use.
5. Widespread adoption of apps apps that no one ever asked for but may be able to use to minimize the consequences of widespread adoption of apps that no one ever asked for but may be able to use.
6. Holy shit, what have we done to ourselves?
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8. Rinse, repeat.