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These babies. I'm writing a book about a modern day burglar ala Arsene Lupin and I want to keep it exciting yet realistic and I was thinking about the most basic burglar detection systems and how they could be avoided/disabled. I've googled a bit and found things but not sure if they can be taken seriously for example using a laserpointer on it or shielding yourself with a mirror and just walking slowly.
Does anyone have experience with these things?
Use a screwdriver.
Or smash it. Both work. Just one's a little too obvious.
Well I reckon you can keep them from detecting anything if you aren't moving.
[QUOTE=iwirthless;34123677]Use a screwdriver.
Or smash it. Both work. Just one's a little too obvious.[/QUOTE]
Wouldn't the alarm go off if you destroyed it?
You can move REALLY REALLY slowly to bypass them. They have a tolerance built it so it doesn't get accidentally triggered. I slowly moved across my living room, making sure the LED didn't light up (detected movement) It took me a good 5 minutes to slowly make my way across.
Be Sam Fisher.
Cover it in honey
Here. have fun watching.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8vmd3DkzDg[/media]
Walk up to it, wave your hand, and say, "This is not the motion you are detecting for."
[QUOTE=LordCrypto;34123953]Here. have fun watching.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8vmd3DkzDg[/media][/QUOTE]
Oh wow.
Op, unless the character in your book is MacGyver, he cant figure the sheet part out.
[QUOTE=LordCrypto;34123953]Here. have fun watching.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8vmd3DkzDg[/media][/QUOTE]
a white sheet fending off a sound triggered alarm? What.
grab a sheet and hold it up so it's covering your whole body, walk slowly and the motion detector won't make a sound/flash.
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god damn it i gotta start reading threads more
[editline]9th January 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=Thugaim;34124298]a white sheet fending off a sound triggered alarm? What.[/QUOTE]
motion = sound
What.
[QUOTE=Str4fe;34124296]Oh wow.
Op, unless the character in your book is MacGyver, he cant figure the sheet part out.[/QUOTE]
Maybe you know, he watched the show?
Put a post-it note over the detecting part.
Really slowly lower a sheet of paper over the motion detector to cover it
~smooth criminal~
none of these suggestions help you disable the detector though, just how to beat it.
[QUOTE=Arc Nova;34125795]none of these suggestions help you disable the detector though, just how to beat it.[/QUOTE]
They both accomplish the same goal, making the motion detector effectively useless.
you find the secret code hidden on the computer
Shoot it with a BB gun!
Most of the motion detectors work like sonars. If you carry a cloth of somekind you can reflect the waves. You know kinda like those stealth aircrafts or ships. However to disable it you need to know how the main system works and where the waves are directed. Supposely you can break the detectors with EMP waves but you need to know how it works - Because if the device works as the "watchdog" then you obviously activate the main system and you'll be in trouble. So i suppose the easiest thing to do would be to have 2 people breaking in. One carries the cloth and one is ready to put a box on the device. This way the system wont be disturbed.
But again not all systems are the same. You obviously need to know what you're doing. Also another neat trick you can actually do atleast with the older cameras is burn the vision. Basically cameras cannot capture all the light, So they adjust to the light they get. So if you introduce alot of light you burn the vision of the device for some time.
You can either use this to mask your face from the camera (led light on your head) or to get through some though spots with lets say some flash powder.
There's also this pattern which at right angle fuck up the vision of the cameras, it looks same as if you've ever fallen through a map in some 3d game, You know? It keeps drawing these artifacts which eventually die as the pattern leaves the vision.
Walk slowly across the room with the alarm control system in it
Cut red wire
Suddenly, explosions everywhere and he runs out with his target, while the building collapses
In all seriousness, most alarm systems go off if you actually disconnect the sensor or even disable the power to the alarm system (they have a battery for that reason, that's why your alarm system will still technically work in a power cut)
So the only way is to stop the infra red from your body reaching the sensor, because that's what it detects. Could try wrapping yourself in one of those medical foil blankets? Just an idea. In theory it should work, since foil reflects electromagnetic waves and infra red is an EM wave. Though, I don't know about the practicality of wrapping yourself in foil and discreetly breaking into a house
The sheet things won't work, it's not a sonar. The thing in the OP uses infra red light to detect movement.
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nvm
[QUOTE=papu2;34127237]Okay. Well, How about if you gradually increase the infrared light on the room? That basically blinds the IR camera allowing you to walk around as long as you wont get in the way of the light source.[/QUOTE]
I was wrong, they do detect IR sources.
[QUOTE=Yahnich;34127439]water absorbs most infrared waves, do with that as you wish.[/QUOTE]
It wouldn't help, because they detect a [i]change[/i] in infra-red emissions. So if you used something to hide your body heat, the sensor would be triggered by a big cold spot walking through the room.
get naked and paint yourself in IR reflective paint
-snip-, so much late.
[QUOTE=Yahnich;34127663]i don't know, if you let it heat up to room temperature it should work more or less[/QUOTE]
They're a little more clever than that. They basically take the average temperature at different points across their FOV. If the temperature at one point changes more than at the other points (over a certain tolerance) they go off.
If you had some kind of suit that made you the average room temperature at one point, you'd still trigger it when you walked into the next one, because you wouldn't the the right temperature for that part of the sensor.
Your 2 examples in the OP aren't actually as stupid as they seem. OK the mirror is pointless, but walking [i]incredibly[/i] slowly does work. You become part of the background.
Pointing a laser at it might blind the whole sensor. They're designed to not be triggered by flashes of light, so theoretically it could work.
It could just instantly trigger it of course, but who knows.
Yes.. for your "book", OP
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