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This Kids' Toy Can Hack Garage Doors in Seconds

• by LORENZO FRANCESCHI-BICCHIERAI

That's according to Samy Kamkar, a well-known hacker, who claims to have found a way to open all remotely-controlled garage doors from certain manufacturers with a modified and outdated wireless texting toy marketed specifically at girls that can be bought on Amazon or eBay for less than $50.

The toy, a Mattel Radica Girltech IM-ME, comes with a radio frequency (RF) chip, an LCD display, backlight and keyboard—"all the equipment we need to pull off the attack," Kamkar wrote in a detailed post about his new research.

"We could have built our own device," Kamkar wrote, "but the beauty of this is that it's all already packaged up for you, inexpensive, and is my favorite color."


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