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Just business as usual in the Denver metro. Even parking your car in your closed garage is not enough to keep the thief's out.

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From the post: "This isn’t the first time Lone Tree has been targeted. In February, deputies were searching for suspects who broke into 20 cars in one night.

The problem stretches further than Lone Tree. In May, FOX31 determined that nearly half of Denver’s crime this year is vehicle-related. As of two months ago, stealing a car was the most common crime in 2023."

Just business as usual in the Denver metro. Even parking your car in your closed garage is not enough to keep the thief's out. Archive Link: https://archive.is/UgffF From the post: "This isn’t the first time Lone Tree has been targeted. In February, deputies were searching for suspects who broke into 20 cars in one night. The problem stretches further than Lone Tree. In May, FOX31 determined that nearly half of Denver’s crime this year is vehicle-related. As of two months ago, stealing a car was the most common crime in 2023."

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Garage door openers are hilariously vulnerable, not necessarily to spoofing attacks, but to regular physical attack. Apparently thieves tend to just hook the emergency open pull string with a hanger and then pull that from outside the garage, allowing them to open it.

No opener, software etc needed.

So for anyone with a house with a garage door opener, make sure you secure the emergency pull string if you intend to leave for a few days.

[–] • 2 pts

Or drill a hole in your track and physically dead bolt it. There are a few openers that have a built in dead bolt style locking system.

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Yeah personally I just tie down the opener string if I intend to leave.

One of my dogs is hyper-aware of anything that happens in or around the house and will start furiously barking if he hears anything. I've also got Notion door detectors on all my main doors, so if something opens when it shouldn't both my dog and the alerts go crazy so I have ample time to grab my niggerblaster and check it out.

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Yep, also. Most garage doors come with a physical lock on the inside that passes through the actual rail so the door cannot be opened without just ripping it apart.

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Yep 100%, we always use that too.

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Im looking at automating a lock like that. Ive not spent a lot of time on it but it would be a reverse version. It would still be bolted into a stud but the "moving arm" would not be on the door and would go through the slot in the track and the slot on the door and would be moved by an actuator that would be triggered anytime to the door is triggered (add a delay to the trigger).

That also depends on me changing the opening system to not use the built-in crappy auth system and rather something I roll myself. Ive worked on that a bit and need to fix some things but im moving over to it soon.