Someone Drove Into My Garage Door

Someone can hack your garage door in 10 seconds.

Someone drove into my garage door.

This is the sport that can get hit most by cars and other obstacles. We get calls about once a week from someone who backed into their garage says jon jacobs owner of sound door services in renton washington. The device he s created dubbed the opensesame can open a garage door using a brute force attack in less than 10 seconds. I was parked maybe a foot infront of it and honestly didn t think anything of it.

Garage door professionals say homeowners driving or backing into their garage doors happens all the time. If you have an electric garage door opener it can most likely lift your door completely. If you accidentally hit your garage door with your car don t panic. It s important that you understand that this may happen to you as well.

In fact many people crash into their garage doors in the winter after sliding on ice. The most common type of garage door accident is when damage is done to the bottom half of the door. So i m a college student nebraska and made one of the most careless mistakes of my life today. I lightly tapped the garage.

On average standard garage door openers are strong enough to pull over 350 lb or 160. The first electric garage door opener was introduced in 1926 but. 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. How garage door openers work.

Before we get into the details of the vulnerability let s explain a bit about how automatic garage door openers developed. Your insurance may cover the damage.