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mosburgeryesterday at 2:15 PM1 replyview on HN

Yeah - I think it still a bit of a deterrent ... today, not everyone has a camera, and if I were a thief and one house had cameras while the place next door did not, guess which one I'm gonna rob?

But I wonder how much of that will wear off once everybody has one.


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reaperduceryesterday at 3:05 PM

if I were a thief and one house had cameras while the place next door did not, guess which one I'm gonna rob?

But we're talking about doorbell cameras here, not giant boxes in the sky with flashing strobe lights on them.

A thief doesn't know if there's a doorbell camera on a particular home until they're already on the porch and recorded.