door-hacking?

Sweepers have been available. That is, a crook could
use one while driving down the street and it sweeps
the possible code combinations. When a door opens and
nobody is home, well you get the idea.

Gene

--- Ted Gould <ted@gould.cx> wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 07:06, Mike Starke wrote:
> > We have all heard of drive-by's on the 802.11 side
> > of things.......blah, blah.....
> >
> > Has anyone heard of tools/means to decipher
> garage-door
> > openers? sniffers or scanners?
>
> I'm no expert on the matter, but I think that most
> garage-doors are AM
> modulated. It seems that you should be able to hack
> one with a pretty
> generic demodulator and an oscilloscope. I don't
> know if any
> prepackaged tools other than those programmable
> openers that can do any
> door that they have at Lowe's. You could probably
> get one of those to
> scan pretty easily if you hooked it up to a parallel
> port.
>

>         --Ted

>

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