Wireless Jammers
This week Jake Voll brings the topic of wireless jammers to the room, and the room has stories to tell. A few years ago this sounded like a movie plot or a theoretical problem. Now police and federal prosecutors are describing it in burglary investigations, and the dealers on this call have lived it.
The uncomfortable part is that nothing on the shelf today would have stopped either one. Encryption stops spoofing, not jamming. Frequency hopping and hardwired sensors buy you a local alarm at best, because the same device that jams RF also jams the cellular path carrying the signal out of the building.
In this episode, we talk about...
✅ Two dealer incidents in detail, including the cut network cable with video proving the alarm sounded locally, and the 90 second smash and grab where the sensors fired but nothing reached the panel
✅ Why a redundant communication path is thinner comfort than it sounds
✅ What encryption actually protects against, and why frequency hopping and hardwired devices still leave you with a local alarm at best
✅ The hardwire everything standard one dealer landed on after a takeover job, and how he rebuilt that customer's confidence without giving the work away
✅ Four documented cases from Jake's research, from nine residential burglaries in Edina, Minnesota to a federal conspiracy that hit 29 financial institutions for more than $4 million
✅ How cheap and available these devices have become online, and the reminder that buying one is a federal offense with no professional exception
✅ RF jam detection on every wireless panel, why almost every dealer enables it at install and disables it before leaving, and how that decision reads in a lawsuit when the customer finds the feature later
✅ Local and edge storage as the hedge for when the connection drops, from a dealer who puts that recommendation in writing every single time
✅ What a central station does with a failure to communicate today versus what it should do with a jamming alert, including the question nobody has answered about dispatch
✅ Security beyond the panel, from the burglar's eye view walkthrough to resistance, deterrence, and displacement, and using CPTED to make a house the one they skip
Coffee Break With Jake is recorded live every Friday at 11am ET. Join us live or register to attend at https://go.ssandsi.com/coffeebreak!
The uncomfortable part is that nothing on the shelf today would have stopped either one. Encryption stops spoofing, not jamming. Frequency hopping and hardwired sensors buy you a local alarm at best, because the same device that jams RF also jams the cellular path carrying the signal out of the building.
In this episode, we talk about...
✅ Two dealer incidents in detail, including the cut network cable with video proving the alarm sounded locally, and the 90 second smash and grab where the sensors fired but nothing reached the panel
✅ Why a redundant communication path is thinner comfort than it sounds
✅ What encryption actually protects against, and why frequency hopping and hardwired devices still leave you with a local alarm at best
✅ The hardwire everything standard one dealer landed on after a takeover job, and how he rebuilt that customer's confidence without giving the work away
✅ Four documented cases from Jake's research, from nine residential burglaries in Edina, Minnesota to a federal conspiracy that hit 29 financial institutions for more than $4 million
✅ How cheap and available these devices have become online, and the reminder that buying one is a federal offense with no professional exception
✅ RF jam detection on every wireless panel, why almost every dealer enables it at install and disables it before leaving, and how that decision reads in a lawsuit when the customer finds the feature later
✅ Local and edge storage as the hedge for when the connection drops, from a dealer who puts that recommendation in writing every single time
✅ What a central station does with a failure to communicate today versus what it should do with a jamming alert, including the question nobody has answered about dispatch
✅ Security beyond the panel, from the burglar's eye view walkthrough to resistance, deterrence, and displacement, and using CPTED to make a house the one they skip
Coffee Break With Jake is recorded live every Friday at 11am ET. Join us live or register to attend at https://go.ssandsi.com/coffeebreak!
