I didn’t take my ADHD medicine today. Went to go get stuff out of my car and ended up with 3 different screwdrivers on the ground trying to unscrew the garage door opener.
The sun-tanning of the plastic was pretty cool. guess it used to be white instead of yellow/tan. Didn’t know that.
I get it, and no shame on anyone for whom those concerns rise to a level of “Nah, not for me.”
It’s still plenty more secure than the non-rolling code garage door openers I grew up with. Or, frankly, the external keypad that I had before. Way easier for one of my kids, or inlaws, or inlaws kids, to leak my garage door code - and that kind of leak would be to someone local, who has physical access.
With this service, someone would have to A) get into the service’s data to the extent that they could operate an arbitrary garage door, then B) link my account there with my physical address, and C) coordinate physical access to my house, finally D) successfully burgling my house when there is always someone home.
My assessment is that each of those steps is unlikely to happen individually, and even if all four of those steps do happen, the likelihood that I am the arbitrary target isn’t terribly high.
Hell, my first car didn’t have an internal hood release, you could get into it with a coat hanger, and a swift wrenching on the steering wheel would break the steering lock. I wholly agree that security is often an afterthought, but that’s always been the case.