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Re:Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users by throw0101c on Sunday January 29, 2023 @05:58PM (#34573685)
> I am guessing your other priorities in your life make it so you need to live in an unsafe area?

It may not be so much you live in an area with danger, but the danger comes to your safe area looking for money (ransom).

And not just you, but those around you:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Paul_Getty#Kidnapping_of_gr...

See also "Lottery winner 'regretted scooping £11m' when brother hired hitman to assassinate him":

* https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/lottery-winner-r...

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Re:Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users by robocat on Monday January 30, 2023 @02:07PM (#34584849)
> kidnapping, hitman

These are outrageously unlikely in my country, and would guess are extremely unlikely even in the USA.

If you are worried about extreme events, then a security system is hardly going to help you. When you win the lottery, you can move or buy a good security system.

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