[ajbrown]

When I was younger, I was lucky enough to be in charge of a network security team at an Internet company in Cambridge, MA. They opened my eyes in ways you cannot imagine in my years with them. They were very bright young people, if you played in network security, you would know their 'handles'. To be clear, they were white hats, they did not hack to break into things, they never did anything illegal, they enjoyed breaking what was assumed secure by experts.

When I see things like this garage door stuff, it reminds me of them, very smart people, sitting in a lab somewhere developing circuits or code to demonstrate that the people who promise they have taken care of our security cannot be trusted with blind faith. They did this for fun, the way others spend their time playing golf.

That said, most newer garage door openers have a rolling code technology which should prevent anyone from being able to guess your code. After knowing my old security team, I do not believe for a minute there is not someone in the world who is working on breaking the predictability in protocol that generates the next code.

When we first moved into our new home we did have an issue which took me a week to figure out. When I would open MY door my neighbors door would close and visa versa. Always a good idea to reset the code after moving in.