I think this is the proper URL: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ptOCAuEHRqu3jCpE7ThBwHdl1CfEHcevDnVz_abTxvg
I linked to the FB page for provenance of the Google Doc. The post is to the verified Boing Boing Facebook page, posted by the Boing Boing account. Is the list Mark Frauenfeldersâ? He tweeted that it had been updated in Aug.
If paid ads are going to be here, isnât it better for them to be obvious? I mean if boingboing was really devious, it could have stories about people making steampunk arduino-based electric cigarbox ukuleles and just throw in a bunch of references to how the subject happens to run a startup making internet-enabled doorbells or something.
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No, no. Itâs âdisrupting.â Get with the program.
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How do you prevent someone from dismounting RING and stealing it?
Some of us have been working HARD to get on that list. So far, I have had no luck 
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Guard dog.
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Buy a second one and mount it opposite the first.
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As mentioned above, it has tamper-resistant screws.
Dear BoingBoing,
I was concerned about someone stealing the guard dog I have purchased to safeguard my investment in the âRingâ doorbell which I never knew I needed. I hired guards from a security company on a 24-hour shift and put up a shack for them to shelter from the torrential rains while they watch my guard dog to prevent him from being stolen while he is guarding the RING doorbell which I never knew I needed.
However, because the shack did not have a motion-sensing two-way video camera doorbell, some hooligans were able to approach the shack door unnoticed, broke into the guard shack, overpowered the guards and looted the shack. Following this, some other miscreants stole my guard dog - I suspect irate animal lovers who objected to my dog being tethered outside all the time in the aforesaid torrential rains - and other hooligans - or possibly the same ones - stole my Ring doorbell which I never knew I needed for sale on the international black market. They are no doubt now rejoicing in their unjustly acquired BItcoins.
I am disappointed in BoingBoing.
Yours most sincerely,
Pope John Paul II
P.S. Can I be on The List now? Can I can I huh?
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Has anybody got a picture of the tamper-resistant screw head? Iâm interested in what they use. I collect tools to remove tamper-resistant screws. (Seriously. Not counting duplicates, Iâve got 185 in my collection. My favorite? The Tri-wing screw heads usually used in the aircraft industry. Theyâre wonderful pieces of technology.)
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Correct me if Iâm wrong, but isnât tri-wing, at this point, so common that itâs almost lost its tamper-resistant status? The whole concept of tamper resistance in screws is kind of weird, as the more popular a design becomes, the less secure it is
Not. Before. Me!!!
Otherwise I will be
#Disappointed
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Yeah, thatâs a boring olâ Secure Torx. Got that one! 
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Ah, youâre right, I couldnât make out the post in the middle. I have those too!
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Collecting these isnât as much fun as it once was. Crappy knockoffs of every kind of security screw and the tools for them are available from China almost as soon as they come out. When Pentalobe screws were new, the tool was available within a week. I liked it better when it was a challenge to find them.
As for the Tri-wing specifically⌠have you ever seen them in the wild on anything that wasnât aircraft-related? Nintendo uses a similar screw, but it doesnât have the milled sides and the flat end that a Tri-wing has. It looks more like a three-lobed Philips (yes, I have a set of those too!)
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My collection isnât as extensive as yours so the dremel gets a fair bit of use cutting slots into nonstandard heads.
(The recent garbage disposal debacle comes to mind.)
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