How To Hack A Garage Door Opener

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How to hack a garage door opener.

How garage door openers work. Hacking into your garage door may be necessary if you have lost your garage door opener or the programming is messed up not allowing you access. Yes garage door openers can be hacked. A security expert named samy kamkar discovered that he could hack his garage door opener using a readily available child s toy.

It s important that you understand that this may happen to you as well. Older garage door openers use a fixed code which makes it incredibly easy. This can be done with just a few simple household items and a little knowledge. Again with older fixed code openers he modified the im me messaging device to identify the correct code in under 10 seconds.

The first electric garage door opener was introduced in 1926 but didn t gain in popularity until after world war ii. Smart garage door openers can be hacked too through the wifi network if it has weak security attributes. Burglars don t need to do any physical damage to the door to get inside. Someone can hack your garage door in 10 seconds.

The garage door is a vulnerable point of entry for criminals looking to steal your valuable belongings. Before we get into the details of the vulnerability let s explain a bit about how automatic garage door openers developed. This is the most secure form of garage door opening technology and very difficult. Lately you can see a lot of articles and reports circulating on the web that mentions the fact that a garage door equipped with an electric door opener can be opened with a hack kid toy that s right.

More sophisticated ones that use rolling codes make it harder to hack but it is still possible. This is much simpler than you may think. How to hack any garage door. We know this is cause for much concern.