Security professionals have a name for the mistake most homeowners make: relying on a single line of defense. Security researchers describe effective protection as "layered protection" or "defense in depth" — a strategy built on the idea that no single...
Burglars don't case a house for hours before deciding whether to break in. A 2013 study out of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte's Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology — "Understanding Decisions to Burglarize from the Offender's Perspective"...
Peak output, yes — around 50,000 volts. But that's not the number that actually reaches your body, and it's not really the number that matters. Here's the real, specific breakdown, because the "50,000 volts" figure that gets repeated everywhere is...