I’m back, refreshed from a week away, my first proper holiday for some years. Yet I left no online message on the blog to tell our customers. The reasoning is obvious, though some would argue there is no harm, it only takes a few moments to work out where we are based – click the […]
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There have been many people who have reviewed and tested safe combination locks, including large organisations such as Underwriters Labatory and the British Standards Institute. It is the same with door locks, and insurance grade keyed padlocks. However, when I was recently asked to provide a secure combination lock for a set of factory gates,
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As mobile emergency locksmiths we do a lot of miles. We have to come to you! So recently, we looked at how we could further reduce our carbon footprint as a company. We already have modern fuel efficient vans, with super lubricant low friction engine coatings, simply because of fuel costs, so there was little
We aren’t snowed in, in case you were wondering. We were on Monday, but we are fine now. So if your door isn’t working, whether on your car or home, give us a ring.
Discreet Security has just signed up as the linked provider of the Pickbuster anti-bumping solution. You can view our new microsite on the Pickbuster website to verify this: http://www.pickbuster.co.uk/Discreet Security Pickbuster is a relatively simple and low cost solution to the problems presented by lock bumping. Lock bumping has been known for nearly 100 years
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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 »
