Snoops Can Easily Invade Your Locked Home While You're Out Or Asleep

Surveillance ops and other stalkers are using a device to quietly and quickly enter homes of mainly innocent targets while they are away or asleep. Along with other aspects of today’s surveillance scandal, officials have been keeping this device that allows “unforced entry” a secret.

Police and criminologists call an unwanted home intrusion without an actual “break-in,” such as breaking a window, door or latch, an “unforced entry.”

Cumberland University defines unforced entry: “Unlawful Entry (No force): An unforced entry is one where the unlawful entry is achieved without force through an unlocked door or window.”  

It could be argued that in the case of unlocked windows and doors, the victim has contributed to the problem and shares the blame. An “unlocked door or window,” however, is not the only way an “unforced entry” can happen these days. Nevertheless, victim-blaming is as rampant as unforced entries these days.

Police and community members blame these crime victims, saying the unwanted intrusion occurred because the victim did not lock doors and windows well enough. The government and the public might also blame victims for being corporate government whistleblowers worthy of such unwanted intrusions. 

Many of these victims are innocent Targeted Individuals.

Anyone with a relatively new device called a bump key can enter a home regardless of its locks, in less than a minute, according to crime specialists.

While stalkers’ “code grabbing” for unforced entries has made news of late, another mode of entry that has not hit headlines is that of the rising use of bump keys to gain unwanted illegal entry quickly and silently.

Bump Keys, not ‘Car Code Grabbing,’ Used for Unforced Entries

“Car Code grabbing has increased exponentially in the last five years,” reported the Oregon Herald earlier this month. “When you press your key remote to lock your car, someone may be close by to intercept that electronically transmitted code and clone it to gain access to your car.”

The Herald goes on to tell a woman’s car story that went viral, with millions of transmissions, (no pun intended). She kept locking her car, walking away and each time, hearing her car door unlock.

Naturally alarmed, the woman story-teller said she looked around and saw two men stalking her from a parked car in a fire lane next to the store.  

“They were obviously watching me intently, and there was no doubt they were somehow involved in this very weird situation,” she explained, as thousands of Targeted Individuals do when being stalked by more than one person, also called being “multi-stalked.” 

At the police station where she reported the incident, she was told she was a victim of a new crime, gaining entry into cars for thievery – or worse, such as to rig or manipulate a car so it will go out of control. 

“Two weeks later, my friend’s son had a similar happening,” she said. ”While traveling, my friend’s son stopped at a roadside rest to use the bathroom. When he came out to his car less than 4-5 minutes later, someone had gotten into his car and stolen his cell phone, laptop computer, GPS navigator, briefcase… you name it. He called the police.”

He, too, was victim of what is known as an “unforced entry,” that is, no visible signs his car had been broken into, such as a broken window. 

The story goes on to say police told the young man that he’d been a victim of the latest robbery tactic: Robbers using a device to clone your security code when you lock your car doors using your key-chain locking device.

The way to supposedly outsmart such stalker thieves or contracted surveillance ops who are using unforced entries, according to the police officer in the story, is to manually lock your car door-by hitting the lock button inside the car. 

“When you manually hit the lock button on your car upon exiting, it does not send the security code. If you walk away and use your door lock on your key chain, it sends the code right through airwaves where it can be instantly stolen.”

“Snopes Approved. Please share with everyone you know,” the disinformation story ends.

The Herald did share the story, but followed it saying, “Older garage door transmitters sent the same 8-bit code based on the pattern set on the DIP switches. Someone could capture the code with a radio scanner and easily re-transmit it to open the door.”

With a rolling code, however, according to the Herald, “capturing the transmission is useless.” It furthers:

“There is no way to predict which random number the transmitter and receiver have chosen to use as the next code, so re-transmitting the captured code has no effect. With trillions of possibilities, there is also no way to scan through all the codes because it would take years to do that.

“Please read [that last] paragraph again (I couldn’t have said it better myself). And now delete the silly chain e-mail. Whenever you get an e-mail like this, please take a few minutes to verify the facts before you send it on to your friends. Don’t take the e-mail’s author’s word for it when they append ‘Snopes Approved’ to the end of the story.

“The chances are that they are trying to stop you from doing any investigating because they know that is a load of bolloks!”

So how are stalkers and other surveillance ops gaining easy entry into cars and homes?

Stalkers’ using unforced entries is an escalating crime that whistleblowers and ordinary innocent Americans are increasingly reporting and being blamed.

In Butler County, for example, a “high number of burglaries and thefts throughout the area occur because the victims have failed to lock the door of their house or car,” police officials there have recently said, according to the Journal News. 

Over the past 10 years, an average of 234 burglaries took place each year in Fairfield. Of those, 72 incidents (30 percent) were unforced entries. 

Police there say what police across the nation say: Unforced entry means the intruder came in because a door or a window was unlocked. In other words, again, police are blaming the victim.

Fairfield is promoting “Twist the Wrist,” meaning “all homeowners have to do to protect their property is flip their locks closed.”

Really? The notion of simply locking doors and windows with ordinary high-tech gadgetry is nothing more than folly, according to crime specialists.

Bump Keys Used In Up To Half of ‘Unforced Entries’

Unlike what police are telling the public, crime specialists say, “It’s impossible to know what percentage [of 'unforced entries] are due to bump keys because it’s possible that the burglar picked the lock or simply stumbled across an unlocked door, according to Locksmith Fort Green’s website, where the reader can learn much about unforced entries with use of the new device. 

In fact, as many as half of all unforced entry cases are likely due to bump keys, according to some crime specialists. 

“Clearly, bump keys are one of the biggest dangers posed to homeowners for a number of reasons,” the security specialists say, providing three reaons for this.

Crime specialists say that bump keys:

1) Are neither expensive nor difficult to find for someone wanting to break into a building. 

2) Apparently work on virtually any lock brand.

3) Can be used to open a locked door in less than a minute, “a valuable commodity for burglars, who always seek the quickest method to gain entry into a home that attracts as little attention as possible.”

The bottom line? Most locks can be defeated with bump keys, according to the security specialists.

Watch the demonstration in the video embedded below of a bump key used on four locks, courtesy of Salextwenty5.

Digital locks, however, offer a deterrent to bump keys. Locksmith Fort Green says three of these are:

• Locks with a pushbutton entry. These locks can be coded directly on the lockset and the combination can be changed quickly and as often as possible. Instead of using a key, a homeowner pushes a combination of numbers – often 4 to 6 digits – to gain entry.
• Locks with remote-control entry. These include a fob with a button that triggers a sensor on the lock that allows entry into the door. These are similar to remote keyless entry features on many vehicles.
• Locks with fingerprint entry. Biometric locks have become quite popular, with their capacity to store a large number of different fingerprints to gain entry and their flexibility to add or erase a fingerprint very quickly. A scanning pad is located on the lockset to allow someone with the correct fingerprint to enter the home.

This begs the question, Why aren’t police telling victims the truth about how easy it is for unwanted intrusions to occur without forced entry by using a bump key?