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What industry secret are you aware of that most people aren't? (programming.dev)

submitted 4 months ago by protein@programming.dev to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Infynis@midwest.social 71 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

With the exception of at large buildings in dense city centers, just about everywhere else, utilities enter a building at just some point on the back, out in the open. This includes utilities that feed alarms and security cameras.

While some places will have systems in place for situations where these outside connections have been severed, like independently operated cameras on an intranet, cellular data backup for alarms, electrical generators, etc., most places don't, so successfully circumventing their security is just a matter of cutting all the cables on the back of their building at the same time, and then being gone before they notice

[–] Krotz@lemmy.world 22 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

This is dependent on where you live though. In the Netherlands most utilities are buried under ground and enter buildings subterranean.

[–] vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 4 months ago

But they are not buried particularly deeply. If you have drawings, or just some sense of where the meter boxes are in a particular set of houses, you can make quick work of them with a spade and ten minutes or so.

And that’s why you want a camera on your front yard.

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