Put this in your phone: 0333 800 1 24 7 Due to issues with 0845 and 0870 numbers, & even 0800 numbers working out very expensive for both us and the caller from a mobile, last week I took the step of getting a new phone number. 0333 800 1 24 7 is the new […]
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Yes, the game season has ended, but should you be unable to locate your cabinet keys next time you need your firearms or shotguns out the gunsafe, you can be safe in the knowledge that we can open your gunsafe non – destructively in 99% of cases, & this will keep the police happy come
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If you write the date with the month first, today you get 3 14 (20) 15. And at 9:26 and 53 seconds, it will be 3.141592653, which is not happening again in our lifetimes. (You could wait until 53.5897932 seconds and get enough accuracy to hit the far side of the observable universe with negligible
We are taking a few days off, but give us a call if you are stuck, we may still be able to help. 07980143625. Hopefully all will be well. Have a good one.
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If you don’t change the default password on your device, you might as well not have one set. Seriously, it takes seconds to Google sites and manuals, & of course there are other sites that compile lists of these as well. http://gizmodo.com/a-creepy-website-is-streaming-from-73-000-private-secur-1655653510/all That’s a recent article about a Russian based website that gloms the feeds
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You may trust all those you give keys to, but others may have had access to keys before you moved in, or while the house or flat was vacant. I resecured a house recently after a few ‘strange occurrences’ that made it clear that someone was letting themselves in. The owner was adamant that he
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It occurred to me a few days ago that there is a simple way past many security systems in this semi-Internet-of-Things time. There are a large number of devices that use an SDcard, USB device or other removable storage media. There is an old attack where a specially prepared USB stick is dropped in our
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This topic came up again recently. Where does the word “Peterman”, to mean a safe blower-up-er, come from? It would be down to a scholar to do some digging and find the actual answer. Or I could just look on Google and find out… The 2 competing theories: Personally I’ve always thought of Saltpetre
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In my last blog post, I talked a bit about alarm systems, and I’m going to stick with that theme here, to inform you about some of the options for security systems in unusual places. Now, you might think that a derelict house is unlikely to be secured with a state of the art alarm
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A question that I’m sure not many people consider is “Do I actually need an alarm?” The answer, similarly unconsidered, is probably not. But that is with caveats. As a professional, I’ve broken into hundreds of houses a year for the best part of a decade. So, you’d think I’d be partly deaf from the
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