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Ask just about any security expert. One of the best low-effort security measures you can take for your home and property is a set of cameras covering every entrance to your home. However, since most easy-install security cameras operate using WiFi, car thieves can disrupt recordings using blocker technology. 

A WiFi blocker can disrupt your property’s security cameras, opening the door for car thieves to steal your ride

Many home security cameras use WiFi to connect to a base station. From there, users can view feeds and archived footage on smartphone apps. However, criminals, in typical fashion, are one step ahead. Car thieves can use a WiFi blocker to disrupt your wireless security cameras and operate virtually undetected.

Like a radar jammer, a WiFi blocker creates “noise” to interfere with a wireless internet signal. Criminals get close enough to a camera with a blocker to break the connection between the camera and the base station. And boom, it’s as if a car thief isn’t even there while they break in and steal a ride. 

For instance, a Long Island, New York, man will head into summer without his beloved jet ski after thieves used a WiFi blocker to stop his driveway-facing camera. Without the camera coverage, the thieves felt all too comfortable backing right up to the New Yorker’s trailer and jet ski combo, hitching it up, and driving off. 

Fortunately, the man had a second camera further down the facade of his home. This camera wasn’t disrupted by the WiFi blocker, so it managed to capture the daring robbery. The camera caught important details, like the stature of the thieves and the vehicle: a gray Dodge Durango. Details like that can increase the likelihood that authorities can catch car thieves and even recover stolen goods. 

So, what can you do to stay ahead? For starters, a hard-wired connection can eliminate the efficacy of a WiFi blocker. Like the case of the New York jet ski theft, redundancy can help. Overlapping coverage means one inoperable camera might not stop you from getting a glimpse of would-be thieves.

In the same vein of redundancy, consider using a separate camera free of your home’s WiFi network. For instance, a carefully hidden trail camera pointed at your home’s driveway or front door can record motion without the use of WiFi or the cloud. Finally, make your valuables difficult to steal. As silly as it sounds, always remember to lock your doors, chain up your trailers, and close your garage door.