Why a $60 jammer beats your expensive camera system - A Home Security Primer
Burglars are knocking wireless cameras off the air before they break in, and the coverage keeps calling it "a Wi-Fi jammer." There are actually two different attacks hiding behind that one word, and they don't have the same fix. By Onur Oncer Published 2026-07-07 Read 6 min In 2024 the Los Angeles Police Department's Wilshire division put out a warning that reads like a heist movie. As PCWorld reported it, "a small band of burglars is using Wi-Fi jamming devices to nullify wireless security cameras before breaking and entering." The crews were professional: police said "they have lookout teams, they enter through the second story, and they go for small, high-value items like jewelry and designer purses." That is not a smash-and-grab. That is a targeting operation aimed at exactly the kind of home that runs a slick, app-controlled camera system. It kept happening. In December 2025, Bellaire, Texas police said three suspects walked up to a home's...