Take Spying Into Your Own Hands: Camouflage and Masked Security

A guest post from Naomi with Protect Your Home, provider of ADT in Lawton, Oklahoma

For many people, home doesn’t feel like home unless it’s as secure as a federal reserve bank. This shouldn’t be considered paranoia, but rather a realistic view of what exists within society and what could happen in our cloudy future. You’re likely to be safe in your home for the most part, but the hard truth is that there are certain events that could change that to where it is not such a sure thing.

The way that people go about securing their homes can range from shutting the blinds and the garage door to full blown 24/7/365 surveillance. If you’re an individual that would consider yourself as firmly settled in the latter group, you might want to consider the idea of masked and camouflage home security. While security systems can often be exploited or destroyed, employing a few “spy” strategies when preparing your defenses can go a long way in improving your security’s effectiveness.

The ideas are listed below. The security devices with which you could execute this tactic are wide ranging and unique to each individual situation.

In the outdoors

Security is an interesting dynamic. People want prospective intruders to think their home exterior is secure, but they also want to have angles and tactics on them that the person might not expect. This is a tough balance to find as homeowner, but it can be done. Some ways to accomplish security through deception on the exterior of a property:

1. Have an old security system, or false “dummy” equipment, mounted outside. Meanwhile, keep activated security pointing back from tree mounts at opposing angles. Some potential inclusions could include a birdfeeder, or a hollowed-out branch. If someone tries to tamper with your visible security, the entirety of the act will be caught on tape.
2. During moments of crisis, or if you anticipate a home invasion for whatever reason, have floodlights on your home programmed to respond to a long-distance motion sensor. This will warn any type of intruder from a distance that there could be someone or something perusing outside.
3. Install a security camera on the bottom side of your mailbox, facing back at the property. This isn’t a common place to consider security, and you can catch the entire process if someone frequents your lot when they shouldn’t be.
4. Consider covering security features, such as noise detectors and motion sensors, with ghillie-style coverings to cloak them from invaders who might destroy them or circumvent them.

When an invasion occurs

The reality is that not all invaders will be deterred by a security system. However, there is still time to send them running before any harm occurs with a few tricks. However, it takes calculated placement of what are often quite sophisticated devices. A couple sneaky ideas to help you secure the inside of your home:

1. Consider equipping a motion sensor at the front and auxiliary entrances to your house – even windows which are accessible. Wire these to signal to a light source in your house and noisemaker under your bed, which can wake you up if an alarm fails to go off. This can really throw an intruder off, often they often don’t expect cause-effect lights to go on inside a home after they’ve breached the door.
2. Try taking all of the tissue out of a Kleenex box and creating a hole on a shorter side of the box. Place a security camera in there and put the tissue back in. You’ve got yourself a camera placement that would be one of the last places an intruder could ever notice.
3. Consider surrounding your fencing and indoors with motion sensors hooked up to a nearby audio output. Instead of rigging up a traditional alarm, use a recording of a barking, vicious dog. As silly as it may seem, this feature is even offered in some professional security systems – and it can shock intruders with the kind of primal fear that can send them running.

Camouflaging and masking security works both independently and in unison with straight forward surveillance. The tricky part is covering all angles that trouble could come from. Oftentimes, this is achieved through deception.