[gonvaled]

Sure, but the incentive is there once you start dropping valuable goods. And drone technology is improving.

I guess you'll have a 2-3 year secure-delivery-to-your-garden window.

Build a drone that tracks other drones going out of the Amazon warehouse, wait until parcel is dropped, and pick it up.

You could of course build a drone-police which shuts down all dark-drones. I hope the costs of such an infrastructure will be paid by taxes on drone delivery (or by increased price in drone delivery), and that society at large is not left covering the cost of such nonsense.

[limaoscarjuliet]

In U.S. vast majority of items delivered to me were left at the front door in plain sight. They were never stolen.

I imagine the packages dropped off at the backyard will be even more secure than that.

[gonvaled]

Whether it is worth stealing depends on several factors:

- is it worth it?

- will I get caught?

- am I a robber?

Stealing from the front of your house does not happen because most people are not robbers, and it is easy to get caught. Besides, you don't know what's inside, so you don't know if it's worth it.

A criminal operation with a dark-drone infrastructure is a different issue altogether:

- difficult to get caught, at least until we create structures to fight such operations

- it is organized by thieves - by definition

- it does not matter what you are stealing: once you have the dark-drones working, operating them is very cheap, so you can steal as much as you can, making the operations profitable.

[Ma8ee]

It won't be cheap when your thief drones start to be shot down and it won't be safe when the police start to follow your drones back to your hiding place.

[collyw]

"Stealing from the front of your house does not happen because most people are not robbers"

I think that depends a great deal on where you live. Nice small town in the country where everyone knows each other, no problems, big city, no chance of it not being stolen.