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Its not really better than booby traps for security. Its better than getting drug out of your house by the cops then raped for eternity in prison because your booby traps were successful.
In other words, such things are illegal.
I really don't think it is. Booby traps, steel doors, fences, land mines, etc. are just delaying tools. Unless they're covered by fire they're hardly an obstacle at all.
If your booby traps are diy you get your head blown off because of a bad Linux update on the PC running KillDriver1.07.5(final)b(7).bin.
If your booby traps are standard models the robbers know the auto-turret only tracks 23.5 degrees vertical so there's a blind spot between your roof and the tree by your perimeter wall etc. etc. These guys are already using Ali-express broad-spectrum jammers to take out non-hardwired security systems, they're not just drunken nogs with rocks.
You need 4 things in a security system: identify, delay, fix, eliminate. Booby traps only do the 2nd or 4th of those.
If your front door land mine goes off, how do you know it got all of them? What do you do now? Even if you're sure the bird bath zyklon sprayers got the stragglers, you still need a team to sweep and confirm.
With a response team attackers know they could be surrounded and counter-attacked at any second. They're not advancing slowly and carefully against a passive system, taking 10 to disarm traps. They're in a race against time to get something done before they lose the initiative.
Drones are an alternate active response that people should be looking into. Tethered drone with a grenade is going to be the cheapest flexible response tool available.
You act like criminals are Seal team 6 going after Bin Laden. In reality they are low intelligence cowards looking for easy opportunities to make a quick score. They dont have the time or patience to think about a 23.5 degree vertical. If one of them steps on a bear trap going up to your front door they don't redouble their efforts and look all around for bear traps, they run away like scared dogs. Even better, if your bear trap wakes you up, now you are the sniper.
A security system against these sorts of people doesnt need "identify, delay, fix, eliminate" it needs "scare, delay, notify". If a drop trap breaks one guy's leg, activates a bedside alarm that wakes you up, and gives you a minute to actually wake up, it has more than done the job.
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Robbers aren’t that brave. If they think there’s a solid chance one of them dies in any given invasion, they simply won’t do it.
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