Is Your Garage A Weak Point In Your Home Security
Is Your Garage A Weak Point In Your Home Security
Home Security Coach

Many people dont consider their garage part of their home, but an attached garage is an often overlooked part of many peoples home security plan. Often people forget to lock garage doors or have garage doors that can easily be broken into. Garage windows are often inadequate for security purposes and provide the thief an easy entrance into your home. Even if you have a security door leading from your garage into your home a thief once inside your garage will probably have access to all sorts of tools to open the door. Make sure you dont overlook the garage as part of your home security plan.

Garage Door Decoders and How They Weaken Your Home Security.


You may think you have excellent security doors and windows protecting your home from access, however few people know of devices called Garage Door Decoders. A garage door decoder is a device which a thief uses to grab the code from your garage door. A robber simply points the device and when you hit your garage door remote to open or close it the Robbers Garage Door Decoder simply grabs your code and the thief can now open your garage door whenever he chooses.

Preventing Thieves From Using Garage Door Decoders To Defeat Your Home Security.


By now youre asking the Home Security Coach how do I prevent this from happening. Well the answer is simple make sure your garage door has a randomly rotating codes that change with each use of the garage door. With each use of the garage door the old code is useless leaving the thief without a code. Check your garage door openers documentation to make sure it is using a random code encryptor which changes with each use. Many older garage door openers have a set code making this a weak point in your home security.
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