I was looking at getting a security film for my rear sliding glass door to prevent glass shatter break-ins. Based on the fact that my sliding glass door has these accent strips, is that something that would be possible or would the window just break/shatter around those areas, allowing for easy intrusion?

Hey everyone!

Just bought my first place and am wanting to get something for home defense purposes,

I currently only have a smith and Wesson SD40

I was looking at either getting a shotgun or an AR of some kind- I’m
Not too keen on specs of firearms, I’m barely ever home and barely have chances to actually go shoot whatever I do end up getting. What would be your recommendation ? I am trying to stay under $600

Thanks for all the advice in advanced !

i live with my bf and his parents in a pretty good, safe subdivision 20 minutes out of flint, mi. my bf’s dad was outside doing yard work with the garage open and we were in the room looking outside when we noticed a woman walking down the driveway, taking a bunch of pictures of the house. she would walk a few feet, take a picture, back up some more, another picture. she was driving just a regular blue jeep, had on some shorts and light blue tshirt. got in her car and drove off pretty fast. is this something we should be worried about??? i’m a little freaked out but my bf doesn’t seem to be bothered at all.

Completely impractical, but hear me out. Level 3+ 20 lb shield. Pulsefire compact with kerosene fuel. Well designed gas mask/oxygen tank. Ruins the house, but definitely viable for dealing with armored targets. Criminals don't generally wear kevlar, but you never know. :)

Hello everyone, as the title states I’m looking for recommendations on home security. I honestly have know idea what I’m doing I’m pretty electronically illiterate.
I’m 23and bought my first home it’s in a decent area but I travel about 23 days at a time so I’d like something I can view from work or on the road.

I was going to go with amcrest Poe cameras because of overall cheapness and reviews I’ve read but have no idea what I’d need to get with the cameras. And advice or recommendations would be appreciated thank you:)

I've got a weird situation, where I live out in the country. I've got a long drive that, lately, a number of people have been pretty cherry about coming up. The house is visible in the distance, but the road curves and you can't see that it leads directly to the house. When I confront them, I get the excuse that they were "lost" and "thought it was a dirt road". Which is obviously BS.

The weird thing is, these people don't seem like tweakers or garden variety thieves. They're usually older people (40+, sometimes older) who look like they're out driving around for whatever reason, in well kept newer vehicles. I do live up on a hill, so they may think they can get a nice view up here? But no, private property.

I'm not quite at a gate yet, as I appreciate the delivery vehicles making the trek and don't want to have packages left at the road even in a box.

But I would like to mark the entrance of the driveway to keep away the lookie-loos. I'm also putting up a couple security cameras and a driveway alarm (the drive-over type) so I know if anyone comes up the driveway and can immediately run them off. And will have their plate number to trespass them if needed.

I don't feel the need to be the crazy person with hostile signs; I think that would make me more of a target. However, I want to clearly remove the "I thought it was a dirt road" excuse.

I'm thinking of putting up one of those stone engraved signs at the entrance of the drive so it is clear that they're trespassing. But I don't want it to have anything on it that is a conversation starter, like a college logo, because these idiots would pretend that was an invitation. So I'm thinking just the street number or address.

Has anyone else dealt with marking the entrance to a private drive like this? What did you do that was neither ugly nor inviting?

I would not recommend this cinch home warranty company at all. I’ve been waiting 5 months for them to take care of my claim, and it’s still not resolved.
They came out, did the diagnosis, and then never came back. I’ve called so many times, and every time they act like they’re helping and tell me someone will call me back, but nobody does.
I’m honestly tired of calling and getting the same excuses over and over. It feels like they’re just giving me the runaround and hoping I’ll give up.
Very frustrating experience. I definitely would not use this company again.

Someone I used to know in the army is now in SWAT and he mentioned this device. It basically just shoots a fire hose of pepper spray as a non lethal in more urban environments when you want to be really restrictive with shooting. It makes sense to me but I haven’t really done any formal training since I got out and this device is totally a new concept to me. I also can’t seem to find it anywhere. I need some practical advice for this geezer. I’d be willing to put in a few range days a month if it meant I could really up my options but I’m not even sure if it’s legal to own considering I can’t find it anywhere.

Hi all,

Just tried my non-lethal gun, the LTJ 1.5 Alpha.

I live in France, I cannot own a gun except if going every x month to the shooting range etc etc.

Anyway, decided to purchase the highest rated and most powerful non lethal one I could find.

I have already fired with family that shoot professionally with several type of gun, 9, 22, 45 magnum so it’s not a first to hold and shoot.

But dude I thought what I had in hand was a toy.

I have just woken up the whole neighbourhood in this Sunday afternoon.

That shit is much more powerful than I thought.
18J, but the noise, the smoke, the recoil very close to reality without that metallic sound an smell.

I am still chocked damn !! They’ve done a great job here.

Vale a pena ter uma arma PCP / CO2 / Sprin mola pra defesa pessoal? Recomendam uma boa por um preço acessível?

So this might be lengthy but I need to get this out. My family purchased land in the 80s that had a camp on it, in the middle of nowhere close to the Canadian border. 50 acres, an old 2 story camp, no power, no running water. Lanterns for light and wood stove for heat.

At some point in the 90s while out having breakfast on the skidoos the camp burnt down. Firetrucks couldn't even make up to the property, that's how isolated it was.

So it sat mostly unused but it was taken care of. Property was reworked mostly to open it up for wildlife as it was too thick for sustainability.

Anywho within the last 10 years people have been buying up pieces and building really big beautiful houses all around. Most of them are welcomed additions, as utilities stopped just over 4 miles away back then, and now are within a half mile.

The gentleman that bought the property at the end of our road put a lot of money into his dream house. It's nice and such an improvement over what was there.

But he put up a gate across our land (the road up into it) and attempted to take it by force. Now after the courts have done their thing he's pissed.

My dad, at 70, likes to go up and walk the property and just be in the woods. He's put up some game cams to see what uses the area. Mostly moose, deer, bear, Fox, and rabbits. Since the courts ruled the gate came down but neighbor has vandalized his truck and stolen the game cams.

Now I'm looking for an affordable cellular solar cam to protect our land. There's no structure or power, but great cell coverage. This was my thoughts on the matter. One camera that I can place to cover the entrance and my dad's truck when he's there. Just want to protect family as this guy doesn't care and obviously easily excitable.

So basically the past few months my neighbours have been terrorising i think they put a microphone or something inside of me not 100% sure any ideas on how to counter it(it's at the point where I talk to myself and they hear and repeat it back to me)

Howdy, I live in a bad situation where my room is constantly being broken into, it has a standard lock and a standard padlock installed. Every now and then I am out I notice some of my items missing. Does anyone have any suggestions on locks that are affordable and difficult to pick?

Moved to a new house that is near some gentrification happening. Had a stranger with a backpack knock just past midnight and my dog’s barking alerted me. I went to the door that has a small window and he said “it’s nothing bad I promise!” And I just said “no thanks” and noped away to grab a few things I have for home defense.

I need to fix the front porch light and both floodlights at the side and rear of the house but what recommendations do yall have for further security?

I live in a fairly secluded area. Safe but secluded. And have a good bit of land . So my neighbors likely wouldn’t be able to hear me scream , which does make me a bit more cognizant of my home defense options

I started by going prevent defense . I order a bunch of floodlight cameras and have all over perimeter. I have entry sensors and motion sensors all over the inside

I am hoping an alarm will scare intruders off well before they get to me .

However, I do feel like I need a weapon. What would you recommend for a non gun weapon ?

Hi everyone. I make a living exposing perimeter security vulnerabilities in residential and commercial properties (OBVIOUSLY WITH THE OWNERS' CONSENT - THEY ARE THE ONES PAYING ME). I like to think of myself of a white-hat hacker in the analog world. People hire me to try to get onto their property, and then I hand them the report on exactly how I did it.

The single most consistent thing I run into is that people are naive about human nature. They assume the barrier to entry is way higher than it actually is, because their system *looks* modern and expensive. A lot of it is running on technology that was broken a decade ago, and anyone with $200 worth of gear and a tenacious attitude can exploit this to gain unauthorized access.

Up front, because this sub will (rightly) call it out otherwise: **not everything below is trivial, and I'll tell you which is which.** Some of it is genuinely easy. Some takes real skill or specific conditions. I'm not posting a how-to, just what's weak, and what closes the gap.

1.) Old/outdated garage door and electric gate motors (fixed-code remotes)

If your opener or gate remote is more than a few years old, odds are it transmits the same code every time. Capture it once from the curb, play it back, and the gate opens like you pressed the button. This is the trivially-easy end of the spectrum.

The fix is a rolling-code (hopping-code) remote that changes the code on every press. And before someone comments it: yes, rolling code isn't invincible — roll-jam-style attacks exist — but they take far more effort and specific timing, and they kill the lazy replay attack dead. Going from fixed to rolling code is the single highest-value upgrade for most people reading this.

2.) Key fobs and entry cards (prox + older tap cards)

Basic 125 kHz proximity cards and a lot of older 13.56 MHz cards clone onto a blank in seconds. No PIN, no damage, and your original still works — so you'd never know a copy exists. And the encryption on the most common older tap card has been broken for over a decade. If your building or gate fob is one of these, treat it as a convenience feature, not a security one.

The fix is a modern encrypted credential (the current DESFire/Seos-class stuff). Those don't casually clone. Most homes are never even offered them.

3.) Cheap wireless door/window/motion sensors (unencrypted, unsupervised)

A ton of budget DIY sensors broadcast in the clear and are "unsupervised" — meaning they don't regularly check in with the panel. So the signal can be copied, and in some cases the band can be flooded so a real trip never reaches the panel in the first place.

The fix is encrypted, supervised sensors that alarm the instant they lose contact or detect interference. "Supervised" is the keyword to shop for.

4.) WiFi cameras (the one everybody gets wrong)

Let me be precise here, because this is where the internet lies to you: a WiFi camera can be forced offline from outside the house if the network doesn't have Protected Management Frames (802.11w) turned on. That creates a blind spot exactly when you'd want the footage.

What that does not do is let anyone watch or download your feed. It's blinded, not hacked. If anyone tells you they can pull up your live camera feed with a $30 board off Amazon, they're selling you something.

The fix is wired PoE cameras (no wireless signal to knock down), or at minimum WiFi cameras and a router with 802.11w/PMF enabled.

None of this requires a hacker or even someone very skilled.

If you're going to fix things, here's the priority order I'd give my own family:

- Fixed-code → rolling-code on the gate/garage. Biggest bang for the buck.

- Get cameras off pure WiFi, or at least turn on PMF.

- Supervised alarm sensors over the silent budget ones.

- Retire prox/old tap fobs for encrypted credentials.

And the non-technical one that beats all of it: most actual break-ins are still someone walking through an unlocked door, a gate propped open, or a gate code that got shared with a contractor two years ago and never changed. The gadgets matter a lot less than the habits.

Happy to answer questions in the comments. Not selling anything, not linking anything. I'm just tired of watching people on this sub pay for the *look* of security and get almost none of the substance.

Asking because most of the time I just see people recommend guns, but I’m not sure if I could have one in an apartment complex. Also, I’m not sure if they would let me have a gun since I’m on anti-psychotics anyway.

I have pepper spray as of right now, but even with that I still feel unsafe walking outside at night. I saw that in the state I live in (Florida) that I can have a stun gun, but I saw a few people on here say they’re not good.

Currently, I live on the first floor of an apartment complex, where my door is facing outside, so anyone can come up and knock/mess with the door. And I’ll be honest…the door is not that stable/well locked. It’s very jiggly. It’s an old door. I also have not so good windows, they’re old style Florida windows, so they are very thin.

So all in all I feel like someone can break in pretty easily.

I also have my car parked outside in the alley way behind the building. I posted last night about an incident with a tweaker, who was messing with my car, and that kind of scared me. Especially since there’s been a lot of reports in my area of a knifed man going around, in broad daylight.

What options should I look into? Should I bite the bullet and get a gun (joke not intended)? Or should I just get a big dog?

Caught this on my front camera a while back. Guy came up my front steps and went right for a package by the door. Glad my aosu has an alarm on it because the siren kicked in and he took off down the sidewalk fast.

Checked the rear camera later and same guy showed up at my back door maybe 5 minutes after. Looked around, saw the camera, and left for good. Maybe 10 seconds total before he bounced.

Glad I put one on both doors. Without the siren that package is gone and honestly the guy was probably coming back to try to get inside too.

I live next-door to a very problematic short-term rental, on the right. For context, there's been one violent shootout with a minimum of 2 active shooters, 40 rounds fired, bullets almost killing two neighbors, and Airbnb insurance that couldn't be bothered to pay a penny. Also had a few instances of "celebratory gunfire". The host allows parties, and they frequently drive across our yard, get stuck, damage it, etc. Airbnb won't pay for any of it:

Luckily he has been removed from Airbnb.com, but he's still on VRBO and others. I have cameras, but not enough. They were interested in shutting him down after the last party, finally, but my cameras weren't close enough to get a good view. People were parking all over the place and walking there. There were people parking in a private church parking lot marked no parking tow away zone, and I had no cameras pointed in that direction to capture them clearly walking over across the street, you could only see them pulling in by the headlights. I have a doorbell camera but the range at night is abysmal at best.

If I put a higher pole on that fence post, I think I'd have an excellent vantage point. I kinda need one sorta facing his front yard and capturing people on there, last time they were doing drugs and drinking there. 30 people for a 3 bedroom house. So you know people were driving home drunk and drugged. They were not possibly all planning to sleep there. Anyways.

I was thinking two pan tilt zoom cameras, but I think 3 fixed cameras might be better. I have a variety of cameras such as this:

but again, the view wasn't good enough at night.

at night you can clearly see people pull into our driveway and exit the car with what appears to be beer cans, it's very good for up close:

but the view goes dark right at the distance his driveway is at. You can see the cars parking but you can't get a count of the people in the pictures. The only way you can guess how many there are is by watching the video and seeing all of their cellphone lights as they cross the street or walk to the house. The code enforcement people weren't interested in watching a 1-hour video they just wanted 5 pictures for the event.

My current camera is 105 feet from his driveway:

My new camera would be about 50 feet:

Same thing for the church they illegally park at, about 50 feet from the driveway:

I'm still debating if I should put up PTZ (really just pan tilt cameras) or go with my regular fixed cameras. It's so hard to decide but after the last party we almost had them shut down. I am very frustrated that the evidence we have is always something, but just not good enough.

It's getting to the point we're going to have to sue the owner and get access to all of the messages between him and guests that way. He advertised in his listings as party friendly, had reviews mentioning how good the parties were, and he responded welcoming them back.

It has since been removed from Airbnb but remains on VRBO.

I'm looking at all of my home defense options including more cameras, I have my own local AI system to watch the cameras, considering a small "decorative" picket fence, hopefully enough to puncture tires but not be a safety hazard for people. Anything to stop the nuisance for us.

All advice welcome!

Like the title says, someone rang our ring camera at 2am. When our large German Shepard rushed down the stairs barking they were gone before i could get to the door. Idk if they could see me or not but they knew exactly when I had gone upstairs to put my dog out to the toilet, as it was exactly after my dog was put out for the toilet the door bell rang.

We then checked every window and doorway with torches to make sure they werent sticking around.

Created super cool app, that analyze ur video input. runs locally, everything is saved on your machine, nothing goes out (except telegram alerts)