Re: Alarm Frequency Snooping

[Crash Gordon® <NONE@xxxxxxxx>]

Aliens?

While it may theoretically be possible to intercept codes, they would =
have to be really close to the device *while* you were operating it =
(your alarm).=20

For a garage door opener....sheesh it would take a while to crack a code =
considering most garage door openers have millions of codes and the =
better ones change their own codes...so I kinda doubt it.

Have you considered moving to a safer planet?...maybe Belgium?




"Dennis" <dennisb@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message =
news:1115583170.576728@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi everyone!
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> I could really use some serious advice from all of you wireless =
security
> alarm hotshots.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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!
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> Soon after, the car drives off and I notice the green dome is gone.
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> 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!
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> My questions are:
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> (1)  Is it very likely that they got my alarm's password by means of
> frequency snooping?
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> (2) Are there devices out there that allow criminals to automatically
> determine alarm passwords by frequency "lock-picking." ??
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> (3) If I changed my password, and did not use the wireless remotes, do =
you
> think I'd be safe in the future?
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> (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?
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> Thanks for your insights in advanced.
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