This time of year, locksmiths get a lot of calls about uPVC style doors that won’t lock. This is fairly common, and is simply because the door, which wasn’t perfectly adjusted to begin with, has shrunk enough that the mechanism won’t throw fully. A toe-and-heel job is required, and the issue goes away. Don’t force
Happy New Year, to both my readers! /me waves to googlebot. Trying to go to a job this morning, it took me 15 minutes to get up the drive. I was on the verge of giving up, and it was only a quarter inch of snow. However, good driving prevailed, and I even managed to
Seems there are a few rogue locksmiths running around down near Essex and London, and by charging over £200 a time to open simple – no, trivial – locks to gain entry for lock-outs, they got picked up and set up by Rogue Traders. You can watch the action at http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00fztby/b00fzl3c/Rogue_Traders_Series_7_Emergency_Call_Out/ and trust me, it
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It is quite old news that you can pick up the keystrokes from a target PC with a USB dongle, a PS/2 connector, or a bit of keystroke logging software, and it is also a few years since the majority of wireless keyboards were decrypted, meaning that it became trivial to eavesdrop on what a
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Press release from the British Geological Survey We noticed it. It was about as dramatic as someone slamming the front door. So yes, we are fine. 😉
Oh, the drama – local earthquake! Read More »
A new campaign, backed by the ICL and several other organisations, aims to get the law changed, so that burglary tools such as bumpkeys, that have no legitimate uses to hobbiests or anyone other than professional locksmiths and the security forces, are restricted to those with a real need. Bumpkeys are designed to open a
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