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Old 05-24-2015, 07:50 AM
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Still a puzzle for my binary brain...

Fact 1? The transmitter code changed. I cannot believe this could happen automatically, but maybe?

Fact 2. The new transmitter code is in my neighbor's garage door opener. Why?

Lets stray to side of paranoid silly

I started to ponder how my opener not working could be a hack or crime? I know it is far-fetched, but kind of fun morning brain exercise.

How can I get into your garage? I need you to trust a code I know.

At golf, dinner, town square, I see you have a garage door opener in your cart. I change the code to something I know. Forget breaking in, it is an PITA DOS attack. I do this to 10 carts a night every night or maybe this is a targeted attack, i.e., I know where you live.

For the owners to get into the house with that transmitter they must have the garage door opener learn that new code or they must change the code on the transmitter and have that learned. How many people reset the code on the transmitter first? If you do not, I come along later and have access to your garage.

Issue with thought: Why does my neighbor’s door open with this ‘new code’.

Keep in mind my style garage door opener retains 8 or 9 codes. What if an old one when the house was built was a simple code '+++++++++'. Could someone have changed mine to '+++++++++' and my neighbor trusted that code?

I am erasing my garage openers memory and resetting codes.

Will likely never know the answer. Maybe an email to All Start to get their reaction.
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