GPS Security
CrunchGear has a brief reminder about GPS security. It’s a widely applicable reminder, but especially so during the holidays as it gets darker earlier (easier to commit crimes in the dark), and people are out buying GPS units for their friends and family.
Basically, the gist of it is that if you program your GPS with your home address and keep your garage door opener in your car, it presents thieves with the perfect set of tools to rob you.
Their recommended workaround is that you program your “Home” location as somewhere near your home, but sufficiently far away that a thief wouldn’t be able to open your garage door from there, e.g., the McDonald’s or gas station around the corner from your house.
Sounds like good advice to me. Let the user beware…