Jim boyle came home from work one tuesday and noticed his garage door was open.
How thieves open garage doors.
By disengaging the safety release on your door the door can be rolled up by hand to let a thief inside and then quickly back down as if nothing were out of the ordinary.
Two men walking through arran road in the morningside area stop to check if a garage door is open.
How thieves try to open garage door in morningside.
In fact one homeowners association in arizona made a rule that homeowners had to keep their roll up garage doors closed and burglaries in the area decreased by 50.
Which made us question how.
Hackers can easily modify a standard door opener to accept a usb port and software is readily available on the web to modify how it operates in short thieves can use a device that can remotely open garage doors.
Strange because he had closed it when he left that morning.
To open up a roll up garage door all a thief needs to do is thread a coat hanger or hooked piece of wire through the top of the door and pull the emergency latch.
A number of online videos show how it s done.