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In article <4372@mitech.com> gjc@mitech.com (George J. Carrette) writes:
>Any leased-line phone service will allow for that to be detected.
>
>For example an Analog 3002 leased line for data service costs $43.83 
>a month for local channel charge per point.                    ^^^^^

That's the point.  Few people are likely to shell out $50 or more a month
just for a dedicated alarm-monitoring line.  You've got to have a lot of
really expensive uninsured stuff to make that amount of outlay worth it.
I doubt that the typical $20/month monitoring-company fee includes a
dedicated line, though as I said I've never been tempted to look into
such companies very closely.

Once I put my home computer onto Internet, then alarm-monitoring
service will come with it for free: I just set up an alarm-monitor
daemon on my office workstation, and if the virtual circuit is
disrupted or the alarm system is tripped, the remote system can then
take appropriate action (like calling me, calling a monitoring
company, and/or popping up a window, depending on the time/day of the
event).  But of course, home Internet connectivity isn't going to be
cheap any time soon.  And a savvy burglar could of course disable both
sites (home and work) at once, though that'd be a real challenge.

Fortunately, most burglars pay no attention to the phone lines running into
a building.  And it'd take a professional burglar who's after something
specific to go through the process of actually tying up the phone line as
some here have suggested.  The only defense against professional thieves
is to avoid having possessions they'd want.

-rich