A Retro Toy Hack That Can Open Most Garages

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Short post, but I saw this video from one of my YouTube faves, Veritasium, where they hack a retro Mattel instant messaging toy for little girls, called IM me, to open garages when they don’t use rolling code tech.

Interesting, nerdy, and a little disconcerting but not THAT easy to pull-off. Apparently, this has been a thing for a while, but I’m old and just finding out. #oldguysrule

Here’s the video:

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