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Re:Arduino Burglar Alarm Sends SMS by standingstone on Thursday May 03, 2012 @12:33PM (#3924525)
I have been told that Burglar alarms that send SMS alerts are vulnerable to blocking devices. These are allegedly available on ebay and are already being used for this purpose.
Re:Arduino Burglar Alarm Sends SMS by ajross on Thursday May 03, 2012 @12:46PM (#3924590)
This isn't sending SMS over the radio network, it's hitting TelAPI over (presumably) the land line. A jammer would prevent the reception of the SMS at the site, which wouldn't harm this application because the whole point is that the owner is not present and needs an alarm.

It is, however, vulnerable to the outrageous latency problems (minutes, often) the unofficial messaging gateways have. I send my wife texts to her company blackberry because it's convenient, but ultimately had to duplicate them to her gmail address to ensure that she got them fast enough.

Re:Arduino Burglar Alarm Sends SMS by aimatt on Thursday May 03, 2012 @12:54PM (#3924629)
You're right there about the jammer. But in testing, it hasn't taken more than 20 seconds so far.
Re:Arduino Burglar Alarm Sends SMS by ceejayoz on Thursday May 03, 2012 @12:35PM (#3924531)
This wouldn't be vulnerable to that, as the SMS is sent via a web-based API. You'd have to block the Arduino's wifi/ethernet connection.
Re:Arduino Burglar Alarm Sends SMS by georgieporgie on Thursday May 03, 2012 @01:20PM (#3924757)
I don't think the meth addicts burglarizing my neighborhood are that sophisticated. ;-)