Security Theater

The other day I was at the hardware store with my wife. She has been thinking of installing cameras around her business to keep an eye on things, and so we were looking at the store's section of security cameras. I noticed on the shelf they had a couple boxes that were pretty cheap, only ten bucks, and so I picked one up to look at it. To my dismay, I found out that this is not an actual camera, it is a decoy. It even comes with a little blinking red led so that it looks like it is on. Not only did they have decoy cameras, but these are offered by multiple brands.

This is just silly security theater. These decoy cameras project a sad facade of security with no actual security behind them.