door-hacking?

[Gene Holmerud]

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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