Comments on: Let your cellphone be your butler http://renocheck.com/renowire/security/let-your-cellphone-be-your-butler/ Home Improvement News & Review Sun, 18 Oct 2009 20:04:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9-RC1 hourly 1 By: linagee http://renocheck.com/renowire/security/let-your-cellphone-be-your-butler/comment-page-1/#comment-26484 linagee Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:58:22 +0000 http://renocheck.com/renowire/security/let-your-cellphone-be-your-butler/#comment-26484 Doesn't this make it easier for visitors (and potential burglars) to know if you're home or not? Background sounds on your conversation or even social engineer attacks ("If you're home why don't you come to the door?") make this actually worse than a dummy doorbell ding donger. Sometimes more communication is not a good thing. I am trying to decide what to put for my front door (door bell that came with house is dead). If I add any sort of device that lets people create more sound than knocking, how is this an advantage to me? Anyone that wants to contact me and "get my attention no matter what" will have my cell number. (Like my neighbors for fires, etc.) If I make anonymous people that come to my door knock, they have a limited ability to annoy me. I have a number keypad on my door in case I need to allow people in. If they know me and call me and give a good emergency reason, I can just give them the code. Maybe during halloween when I expect lots of anonymous visitors, I can put up a simple $20 wireless ding-donger from Walmart or something. Still trying to decide what all my options are. Doesn’t this make it easier for visitors (and potential burglars) to know if you’re home or not?
Background sounds on your conversation or even social engineer attacks (“If you’re home why don’t you come to the door?”) make this actually worse than a dummy doorbell ding donger. Sometimes more communication is not a good thing.

I am trying to decide what to put for my front door (door bell that came with house is dead). If I add any sort of device that lets people create more sound than knocking, how is this an advantage to me? Anyone that wants to contact me and “get my attention no matter what” will have my cell number. (Like my neighbors for fires, etc.) If I make anonymous people that come to my door knock, they have a limited ability to annoy me. I have a number keypad on my door in case I need to allow people in. If they know me and call me and give a good emergency reason, I can just give them the code.

Maybe during halloween when I expect lots of anonymous visitors, I can put up a simple $20 wireless ding-donger from Walmart or something. Still trying to decide what all my options are.

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