Basically what the title says. Someone I know is building a house and they want all sorts of security and privacy added benefits one could have with no hold backs.
This post basically serves as a place for everyone to come contribute ideas, hardware, and software, even self hosting is possible to increase the safety, security, and privacy of the home. So feel free to contribute thoughts and ideas but please include how to implement your concept if you can!
Plug and play is preferred but a little reasonable amount of self hosting could be done, with a preference on mechanical hardware where possible but not a hard set requirement.
While money isn’t an major issue within reason, be realistic and preferably eco friendly. Thanks everyone ahead of time!
Hot take, but your local community matters infinitely more than the construction of your house. Build somewhere you have neighbors yoh get along with who will stick their neck out for you.
That being said, you can do the following:
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Plant/build near large trees to cover from satellite/aerial photography
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run conduit throughout so you don’t have to rely on wireless networking
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install security cameras that feed somewhere local (I’m assuming nobody who breaks into your house gives enough of a shit to fins and destroy your recordings)
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buy actually good locks, doors, and doorframes. Make sure you’re aware of what to expect from these, they wont actually keep someone out, they just make entrance louder and slightly more cumbersome.
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build a secret sex room for you and your spouse. This is less of a privacy asset, and more just a fun thing to do.
Build a secret sex room has to be the underated aspect of your whole reply 👌😂. What if said people are pretty vanilla?
That just means they need a sex room to experiment in.
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Consider low maintenance materials. Simple roof line, with good landscape drainage away from the house. Metal, ideally stainless steel roof. Triple pane metal clad or fiberglass windows choose by the sun exposure in terms of coatings. Heavily insulated. ERV ventilation. Consider commercial grade doors, and hurricane approved windows, etc. Consider unpainted stucco or another low maintenance exterior. Ground loop heat pumps for heating. Enough electrical capacity for all electric house including eV charging, but with backup power source. Design for no maintenance in the first 50 or 100 years. You might consider a safe room.
Edit: Might consider hidden and/or locked storage too, a locked filing cabinet at least, or a safe.
Edit: You might also consider a security, home automation, and house monitoring system but choose carefully. One that you control, not some cloud service.
Draineage and runoff are so underrated. Thanks for this type of post. All good info when most focus on opsec and intenet based concepts.
Drainage is often done incorrectly in new construction too. Very common to have all the water drop beside the front door and create a pond. Very common to have beds around the house that create little swimming pools. If nothing else the ground will sink around the foundation and have to be filled quite soon.
I’ve seen this for businesses and homes. It’s atrocious.
Privacy from what? What’s their threat model?
General security and privacy enhancements even things like reserve gas storage for security/safety during storms. Nothing threat specific just good things to include in a home any ideas. The point of this post was to find general ideas en mass rather than 3 letter agency problems and threat model problem solving.