Author: Cameron Faulkner
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SimpliSafe’s latest home security system can apparently be fooled by an affordable wireless emitter that mimics the frequency of its door and window contact sensors. The YouTube channel LockPickingLawyer posted a video demonstrating how it can be done, and, unfortunately, it looks very easy to do.
The host explains that SimpliSafe’s sensors communicate with the base on the 433.92MHz frequency, which is very popular among other consumer electronics, like garage door openers, baby monitors, and more. Most of those products aren’t powerful enough to interfere with SimpliSafe’s system, but this emitter apparently is.
When one of these sensors is normally tripped, the system will initiate the alarm process. But as the video demonstrates, a...
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SimpliSafe’s latest home security system can apparently be fooled by an affordable wireless emitter that mimics the frequency of its door and window contact sensors. The YouTube channel LockPickingLawyer posted a video demonstrating how it can be done, and, unfortunately, it looks very easy to do.
The host explains that SimpliSafe’s sensors communicate with the base on the 433.92MHz frequency, which is very popular among other consumer electronics, like garage door openers, baby monitors, and more. Most of those products aren’t powerful enough to interfere with SimpliSafe’s system, but this emitter apparently is.
When one of these sensors is normally tripped, the system will initiate the alarm process. But as the video demonstrates, a...
Continue reading…
Continue reading...