LAPD warns residents after spike in burglaries using Wi-Fi jammers that disable security cameras, smart doorbells

Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨lemmee_in@lemm.ee⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/lapd-warn-residents-after-spate-of-wi-fi-jammer-cloaked-burglaries-police-share-a-security-check-list

The Los Angeles Police Department has warned residents to be wary of thieves using technology to break into homes undetected. High-tech burglars have apparently knocked out their victims’ wireless cameras and alarms in the Los Angeles Wilshire-area neighborhoods before getting away with swag bags full of valuables. An LAPD social media post highlights the Wi-Fi jammer-supported burglaries and provides a helpful checklist of precautions residents can take.

Criminals can easily find the hardware for Wi-Fi jamming online. It can also be cheap, with prices starting from $40. However, jammers are illegal to use in the U.S.

We have previously reported on Wi-Fi jammer-assisted burglaries in Edina, Minnesota. Criminals deployed Wi-Fi jammer(s) to ensure homeowners weren’t alerted of intrusions and that incriminating video evidence wasn’t available to investigators.

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ThePantser@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Don’t use wireless for security, PoE or CCTV

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- Chozo@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Those aren't always options for renters, hence why wifi security systems are so popular.
  
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  - TragicNotCute@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Even beyond renting, installing a wifi camera is SO much cheaper than running Ethernet all over your house. And if you need it run through an external wall? Even more money.
    
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  - Milk_Sheikh@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Lawful- Neutral renter reporting in:
    
    Fresh paint and a lot of putty hide a lot of sins
    
    Magic erasers ARE magic
    
    Home improvement stores just like sell door trim, hardware, etc and they’ll color match paint
    
    Most post-inspectors are looking for egregious issues or evidence of a bad fix/cleanup. That’s now your threshold for quality
    
    I fixed an entire doorframe trim and drywall after the back door got kicked in - paint and putty are your friends
    
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- Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Renters have virtually no choice here. I hate it when people state this like it’s some damn easy thing for everyone to do.
  
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  - unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    The real answer is caching. Instead of writing video to the cloud live and losing all recordings during a wifi outage, it should just cash the last 30ish minutes in case of failure to connect to the cloud. Then once the connection is up again, it just uploads the cached video.
    
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  - jagermo@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    There are some that have local storage in case wifi drops out.
    
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  - iamjackflack@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I beg to differ not with that attitude. In most situations you can non permanently get a camera out a window or door without harming anything / risking deposit loss. Only where you have no windows near exit points and a windowless door. But even then you can still atleast have something internal to catch a break in (wired streaming to web).
    
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  - RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    There’s no OSFA solution. Yeah, it sucks if you’re renting and can’t run cat 6 everywhere. All the same, you can still run a hard wired cam to a NVR/NAS in at least one location inside, but then you face the same difficulty anyone else does of securing the storage from theft - or you can have it upload to a cloud as quickly as is practical so you get off-site storage images and alerts of the theft.
    
    There’s a lot of opportunistic thefts near where I live. Honestly, the odds of actually catching a good image of the thieves’ faces are petty low. If they know enough to jam the wifi, they also probably know enough to hide their faces. The thieves in our area all wear hoodies and hide their faces somehow, so all you get is the alert that someone is there and an image of a hoodied individual.
    
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  - conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Easy or not, wireless isn’t secure.
    
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  - aviation_hydrated@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    The landlord might have an incentive to protect their investment
    
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  - sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Honestly, if I’m renting, I’ll just get renter’s insurance and not bother with doing any security.
    
    As a homeowner, I’m going to do everything I can to avoid making a home insurance claim. As a renter, whatever, not my problem, the insurance can maybe sue the landlord for not securing things properly because it’s their job, not mine, to keep things secure.
    
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  - SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Honestly super easy. I have a pet cam that records locally to an SD card and is accessible via wifi. A jammer wouldn’t stop the recording. Also like 30 bucks vs 50-100-200 bucks depending on which ring cam you get. Certainly not weatherized but good enough for internal monitoring.
    
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- Socsa@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yes, if you have a $10M villa in LA where you store your priceless art collection. For the average person who just needs video for the insurance company for when some meth head steals their bike from the garage, it’s a great solution.
  
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  - sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Honestly, deadbolts and keeping the garage closed would get that meth head to go to the next house.
    
    If you send a claim to the insurance company for a stolen bike or something, you’re going to pay way more in house insurance than whatever the bike cost. The only time you should be making an insurance claim is for a massive loss, like a fire, flood, etc. The video evidence should instead go to the police so they can track the perp down and maybe recover your stuff.
    
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- Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  IMHO, it comes down to your risk, what will make you feel comfortable, and how much money you want to spend. Pulling Ethernet through the walls and patching drywall might not be something you care to do if risk is low.
  
  Also, if someone really wants to not be on camera, they’ll wear a mask, turn the power off at the main panel, etc. That said, there are cameras that can run on battery and store footage locally when they can’t phone home to wherever they deposit video files.
  
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  - ThePantser@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    My entire 12 camera system is ethernet only which feeds into my server closet and backed up with a battery that can run it for 5 hours. The video clips are sent to telegram for backup.
    
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- CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Most people these days have either a ring doorbell camera or nothing. A very few people have real security cameras hardwired, and even fewer of those have more than 1 camera.
  
  Also, about 1/4 of the ring doorbell cams need their batteries replaced.
  
  PoE/CCTV is def the better option, but youre gonna be hard pressed to get regular folks to make the switch unless this type of burglary becomes endemic.
  
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- aviation_hydrated@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Right?? I don’t understand this attack. People are lazy and far too trusting to have their home feeds uploaded over the internet
  
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  - EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Cheap wireless cloud connected security cameras are the reason home surveillance is so ubiquitous today. Many people don’t have the know-how to install POE cameras, or it’d cost them too much to pay someone to do it. Plus, if you’re renting your house, putting the holes you’d need where they’re supposed to go is something you might not even be allowed to do.
    
    I fully understand the attack. It’s effective against the majority of people.
    
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- RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yep. We have a mix of wifi/hard wired PoE. If you can handle crawling around in the attic or wherever, PoE is the easiest and best option. No need to run wiring to any sort of electrical box to power 110v for cams. Wireless is super-easy, but usually you have to pay for cloud services on top of that. Home hard wired with an NVR or NAS is the way to go.
  
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  - Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    Wireless is super-easy,
    
    Oh, having to pay for cloud services is TIGHT!
    
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ChicoSuave@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The thieves are jamming WiFi systems and the comments on the article and on Lemmy seem to blame the victim for not being tech savvy. The bulk of Nest/Ring customers do so because the app is easy to use and the cameras easy to setup. By definition the victims are far less likely to be able to defend against this kind of jamming attack.

If the next step in escalation is to shut down the power to the house, will the victim be blamed for not having home batteries and solar panels?

Why not question the viability of WiFi systems in general? Has video ever been more than a deterrent to those scared of cameras? Fearless thieves who know how to deter the systems get free loot for their trouble.

Treat security like we did before 2010; improve physical security to defend instead of relying on deterrence.

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- Entropywins@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yeah, it’s not really a spike in burglaries so much as a spike in a specific tool being used in burglaries. Whether they use a brick, wifi jammer or a gun they were going to rob someone someway…
  
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  - AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Or a hoodie. I’m not sure why it’s a big g deal to WiFi jam a video doorbell when you can also defeat it with a hoodie …. Plus that’s not a burglar alarm.
    
    Whoever is peddling anything as a burglar alarm that depends on WiFi is the real criminal
    
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- WhyFlip@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  LAPD is recommending cutting back shrubbery and coordinating with neighbors for extended leave… As a Los Angeles native, neither of these things happen. After all, high walls make for good neighbors.
  
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  - theRealBassist@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    He only says, ‘Good fences make good neighbors.’ Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder If I could put a notion in his head: ‘Why do they make good neighbors? Isn’t it Where there are cows? But here there are no cows. Before I built a wall I’d ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offense.
    
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- Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I don’t know why everyone doesn’t do what I did. I have a WiFi doorbell camera but I also have 13 other cameras that cover the entire perimeter of my house connected to a PoE switch. My switch is on an UPS and connected to an outlet my natural gas generator cutover powers. My office that (that my miniPC running HAOS and frigate) is also on an UPS plugged into outlets my generator cutover powers in a locked cage inside a vented drawer with a 120mm exhaust fan to keep air circulation going in the drawer. All motion is recorded and saved to my local NAS (that is in the same locked cage) for 30 days and it syncs the recordings directory to the cloud. I have isolated cameras that look like usb chargers that record motion on a loop to 128GB micro sd cards aimed at all entry/exit points, hallways, and points is interest. Everything is pretty much set it and forget it. I get notified of any motion on my property regardless of my location and the jpeg captures are immediately sent to a dedicated email I setup should something unforeseen happens to the recorded video. If my or my partners cell phone is not on the WiFi all the cameras (except the doorbell and isolated ones) are set to siren mode on movement detection and they are surprisingly loud especially if two or three are going off at once.
  
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  - corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    I don’t know why everyone doesn’t do what I did.
    
    Your setup is fucking insane, and I mean that in a good way. As someone who ran a small team focused on security and who entertained more than one “I totally sploited our OS/let me show you how we suck today so we can fix it” conversations with dizzyingly smart zealots, this setup has excellent layering and coverage. Well fucking done.
    
    Cost. The same people who say “I’m on a pension so they can’t steal much from me” without realizing their retirement savings and credit rating are the golden fucking goose, also won’t see the benefits to such a cost in capital and setup labour. They won’t do it, and they’ll see us as nutcases until the leopards have eaten their face.
    
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  - person420@lemmynsfw.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    You just said HAOS and Frigate, and “set it and forget it” in the same statement. As a long time user of both I call shenanigans.
    
    I also think you overestimate the ability of the average person. My mom barely knows how to work her Ring doorbell camera.
    
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  - Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Family members will think twice about masturbating in your house.
    
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  - Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    You’ve absolutely nailed the smug tone some of the comments here have, good work.
    
    Also, imagine explaining all that to my mum, you’d be there all week.
    
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  - TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    If my or my partners cell phone is not on the WiFi all the cameras (except the doorbell and isolated ones) are set to siren mode on movement detection
    
    Is this something you coded, or are there security camera brands that support it natively?
    
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- Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Can’t go wrong with a german sheppard.
  
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  - UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Until he gets bored and starts gnawing on the linoleum
    
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inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
While still hating this living dystopia, I do appreciate some of cyberpunk headlines we get.

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Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
POE is where it’s @

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- FrowingFostek@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yes, he kicked down the Point Of Entry. Also, Power Over Ethernet is the best. It is known.
  
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  - fishbone@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    And here I thought someone was just saying they like path of exile.
    
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- TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It’s even easier to cut the Internet cables going into a house.
  
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  - Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    If I had a PoE surveillance system I’d have it saving to a local server.
    
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  - TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Never lived somewhere with buried infrastructure huh?
    
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  - theRealBassist@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    At least with my setup, I get a notification from Unifi basically immediately if my internet/power goes down. With all my POE being run through my walls and attic as well, I don’t really have to worry about individual cables being cut.
    
    At some point when I have enough money to consistently eat dinner again, I would like to get a secondary wan through a satellite internet provider specifically for when my main internet goes down.
    
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Fillicia@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
That’s one of the reason I went with a PoE camera. Just make sure your network is isolated so people can’t connect to your internal network from the camera Ethernet cable.

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- catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Or vice versa, connect to your cameras from the rest of your network.
  
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- Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It doesn’t hurt to hide or disguise the cameras to make them difficult to spot. That way, burglars wouldn’t even try to find and break their server if they’re not noticed.
  
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  - sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Nah, cameras should be very visible so burglars see them and just go to the next house.
    
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gimsy@feddit.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
If only there was a solution, I don’t know, a cable resistent to jamming the ether, something we could call ether-jamming-resistant-network, in short Ethernet

I know… I am just dreaming :-P

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- Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It’s easy to write snarky comments like this, but the truth is running cables isn’t easy, and in some cases simply not possible, at least if you don’t want the cable simply draped over the outside of the house.
  
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  - aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Alternative is like… a single gigabyte of local storage on these things
    
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- Angry_Autist@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  As a side business I consult and install security systems in small businesses and homes.
  
  Literally none of them want the cable option, no matter how hard I push it.
  
  The cost of running the cable and the time needed always is the dealbreaker.
  
  Doesn’t matter if its insecure, they just want it to work now and be cheap.
  
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  - derin@lemmy.beru.co ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    It’s bizarre.
    
    In my last apartment, I literally had to fight to get a DHCP/ethernet + EDGE (yes, really) connection installed.
    
    They kept asking me why I want two 😅
    
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credo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

However, jammers are illegal to use in the U.S.

What is the point of adding this bit for an article about burglaries?

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- AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  They should make burglaries illegal too!
  
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- douglasg14b@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Because it’s relevant? Is this not factual information that readers may or may not have known?
  
  The availability of hardware changes by a not-negligent degree based on the legality of acquiring it.
  
  Curious readers likely find information indicating that these shouldn’t be readily available at your local big box store to be pertinent information.
  
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  - turmacar@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    It does and it doesn’t.
    
    Any microwave with the door rigged open is a super effective Wi-Fi jammer. Everything coalesced on 2.4GHz instead of licensing their own radio spectrum making absolute mountains of overlap. It’s harder jam nearly everything else. ( Not much harder, software radios are super cheap, but you at least need more electronics knowledge than a screwdriver and tape. )
    
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- Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  They’re extra illegal!!!
  
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- communism@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Because jammers are not inherently burglary tools. It provides extra information about the technology in discussion.
  
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- Anyolduser@lemmynsfw.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Because Californians love writing laws as a knee jerk reaction to the crime de jour.
  
  Some pearl-clutching local will go to their state legislature and demand that WiFi jamming be banned despite the fact that the FCC is all over that shit. They keep passing redundant gun control laws in the same way for the same reasons.
  
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- UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Ostensibly harder to obtain when they’re illegal to stock and sell retail.
  
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TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I wish that apps notified you when your camera has been unreachable for too long, but at least that’s a hint that a jammer may have been involved. Cameras won’t stop them, but a the best setups would rely on wires and hidden local and cloud storage for recordings and alerts.

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- Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  A numbers of cameras tell the user when they go offline, but yeah, a lot do not. I have a HomeKit system that sends an alert when WiFi or power has been interrupted to the camera or the primary hub.
  
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- UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  apps notified you when your camera has been unreachable for too long
  
  The volume of false positives this produced would render the system significantly less useful.
  
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- person420@lemmynsfw.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Amcrest’s app does, and you could do it yourself with something like Home Assistant.
  
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- piecat@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Especially if X# of cameras are down
  
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FlashZordon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Worked at an old job where one guy, that had access to the router settings, would disable the Blink Cameras so he could forge his time cards.

Owners ended up realizing the cameras would only be disabled when he was on shift.

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- ShepherdPie@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I worked at Walmart ages ago and one of the overnight assistant managers would do this and then steal cash out of the cash office until he finally got caught.
  
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thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

before getting away with swag bags full of valuables

So just look for the guy who looks like he’s just been to four different network admin conferences?

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- chalupapocalypse@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Bill, where did you get these 37 easy buttons?
  
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jabathekek@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
That screen capture looks like the beginning of a rap video.

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solsangraal@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
i know nothing; would a hardwired connection from the cameras to the router solve this?

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- kusivittula@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  yes, assuming the cables are inaccessible from outside. otherwise it would be easy to cut them.
  
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- habitualTartare@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yes but the camera should be in a place that can’t be physically tampered with easily since someone could theoretically unplug the camera and plug into your home network and see all your computers or other devices as if they had stolen your WiFi password. A small risk but it’s better to hardwire it somewhere they would need a ladder to get to or get a camera system that connects to a central box inside the house.
  
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jpreston2005@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
This is one of those things I thought would always remain firmly within the realm of science fiction. Watching movies and reading books growing up, movies like “The Matrix” and books like “Snow Crash” and “Neuromancer,” I’d always be fascinated with high tech burglary. The idea that one could intercept communications, jam frequencies, or anything of the like, always just seemed a bit too out of reach for modern day criminals. And yet, here we are.

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xantoxis@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Sick, where do I get those jammers?

I’m not gonna rob anyone, I just don’t want cameras working nearby me.

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crystalmerchant@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Physical locks, physical keys. We are collectively becoming too “smart” for our own good

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NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
If a burglar is using a wifi-jammers then the basic consumer is not going to be able to stop said burglar. Basic consumer security products aren’t designed to do anything more than keep honest people honest. It’s much harder & more expensive to prevent a determined criminal from gaining entry and would likely require rethinking housing construction from the foundation up.

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Freefall@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Something tells me that systems will just have a strong dummy wireless signal act as a tripwire and then it goes down, it triggers stuff…even super low end stuff could implement it.

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A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Easiest way to avoid this bullshit is to install wired cameras, and such a way that they are not easy to access/cut.

I know someones gonna come in and be all “BUHBUHBUT YOU CAN JUST DESTROY THE CAMERAS” and yeah, thats true.

but you cant destroy the camera from 3 blocks over, you have to get right up on them, and your face/vehicle/other helpful information may just well be caught and recorded before you do. Unlike wifi jamming, which could be done from streets away.

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Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
In my big American metro area, the burglars usually mask up and roll in with swapped plates, a car they stole, or a car they got off a Kia boy for $100-$200. They’re tough to catch in the act or identify with video surveillance, even with a new hardwired or pre-WiFi hardwired system.

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pelletbucket@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
back in the day, the trick was to cut the phone line, then shove the cut wire back in the phone box. wait for the police to come and see that there’s nothing wrong, then you go and burgle.

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henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’m curious if these are actual jammers or just deauth devices.

It also seems really risky because I think we have three different bands Wi-Fi devices use now?

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Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Me being cheap pays off; wifi cameras are expensive as fuck so I just have wired ones that don’t do anything on the Internet.

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cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
All of my cameras are hard wired. It’s going to take a lot of power to jam those.

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Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
That’s why wireless security devices are a joke. And it is not only WiFi, this is BlueTooth and other protocols like that, too.

Good security (and common sense, too) would be to have such devices wired up. And check the spectrum for jammers and raise an alarm about that, too.

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IMongoose@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
FCC is gunna start blasting

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MehBlah@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
My camera have antennas on them but use ethernet.

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wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Why did they specifically mention to “secure home DVR recorders”?

Other than potentially losing some TV or movies, is that really a big deal next to the other items they mention? It seems really odd to mention one of the least important things.

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septimian@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
My August lock wifi goes down like 4 times a week. I feel so safe.

Wish it had an Ethernet option, not sure how that would work on a door though lol

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