Unfortunately thieves have figured out that by stringing a coat hanger wire underneath the door they can find and trip that latch easily popping the door open.
How easy to break into garage door.
Some garages have their own windows for ventilation and light.
How they can get into your garage.
Catch the emergency release lever yellow arrow and gently pull until the lever releases.
Push the hooked end of the wire through the weather seal between the frame of the house and the top of the garage door.
Inside your garage door is an emergency release you can pull to open the door if you are stuck inside.
Since it s on the inside this should be safe right.
Through the garage window.
This is an easy way for thieves to break into your car and get easy access to your garage.
Monitor these things for a safer garage.
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.
Fortunately there s an easy fix to this problem.
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The device he s created dubbed the opensesame can open a garage door using a brute force attack in less than 10 seconds.
It only takes 6 seconds to do it.
Straighten a coat hanger but leave a curved hook on one end.
To open up a roll up garage door all a thief needs to do is thread a coat hanger or hooked piece of wire through the top of the door and pull the emergency latch.
This is a case of the forgetful ones.