Re: Alarm Frequency Snooping

["Dandelion Acres" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

By-and-large wireless systems have more issues, maintenance and
avenues-of-compromise.  Wireless systems can be snooped, though the
equipment required is not common nor inexpensive. I advise against remote
keyfobs because they can be stolen. Your purse, car and home can be made
vulnerable with one heist or opportune recovery.

My suggestion: Change the code on your garage door remote, or get a Code
Enforcer or some other code-hopping system for that. Lose the fobs on your
security system, and push the damn buttons twice a day. Test your system
regularly and perhaps consider an overlapping detection systems, such as
video motion detection mapped/integrated to a second partition on your house
system for verification  or further convenience.

"Dennis" <dennisb@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1115583170.576728@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi everyone!
>
> I could really use some serious advice from all of you wireless security
> alarm hotshots.
>
> My neighbors are into all sorts of organized crime.
> They're annoyed at me for taking so many countermeasures to protect my
> house... security cameras,  alarm systems, etc, etc, etc.
>
> Last week, I arrived home.  Before opening up my garage door with my
> wireless remote,  I noticed a strange green plastic domed object
> camouflaged
> in front of my next door neighbor's star jasmine bushes (that are also
> green).  I thought that it could be a dome for a security camera. Yet the
> green plastic didn't appear to be at all transparent.
>
> About fifteen minutes later, a car drives up my driveway. A couple minutes
> later, I hear my wireless alarm making the characteristic beeping sounds,
> as
> if somebody was pushing the keys with the secret password with the
> intention
> to disarm the alarm... yet nobody else was in the house!
>
> Soon after, the car drives off and I notice the green dome is gone.
>
> I beleive that the perpetrators have stolen my wireless alarm and garage
> door remote's frequencies and may be waiting for the right moment to break
> in.  I wish I now hardwired the house!
>
> My questions are:
>
> (1)  Is it very likely that they got my alarm's password by means of
> frequency snooping?
>
> (2) Are there devices out there that allow criminals to automatically
> determine alarm passwords by frequency "lock-picking." ??
>
> (3) If I changed my password, and did not use the wireless remotes, do you
> think I'd be safe in the future?
>
> (4) Are there wireless alarm systems, out on the market, that
> automatically
> change the frequecies so that frequency stealing/snooping may not be so
> easily accomplished?
>
>
> Thanks for your insights in advanced.
>
>