Security!

     Having your home burglarized is scary. It happened to me in Birmingham years ago, and it took a long time for me to get over the creepy feeling of strangers pawing through my stuff.
     Here in Montgomery, the police are offering to keep a special eye on your home if you are going to be away for an extended period over the holidays. All you have to do is call 311,
     I'm really not the paranoid type, but when I read that story my first thought was how valuable that list of homes to check would be in the wrong hands!
   

"Great, let's head on over the the Smith's place...I see they're asking for extra security...they must have something valuable in there!"

     No matter how cautious the police are, if hackers can get into a water utility's computer system and destroy pumps, as they did recently*, and get into Pentagon databases, how hard would it be for them to hack the MPD list?
     I say get yourself a nice NRA membership decal and place one on each door. Then a motion sensor light system and either a live dog, or one of the motion sensor machines that sound like one.
     The key, after all, is to convince the thieves to visit your neighbors instead of you, no?
    Oh, and Happy Thanksgiving week.

[Update: Or not.]