Nice bit of locksmithing this afternoon! Customer calls, the front common door lock is broken. I attend, and some sod has superglued a matchstick into the cylinder! Completely wrecked, aside from the first pin. So, with 11 flats in the building, that’s over £200 of new keys. So, I took the lock, and the keys,
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I am delighted to host this paper on warded locks for my friend Richard Phillips. If you are familiar with locks at all, you’ll likely know that warded locks were, for centuries, what protected almost anything of value, and they are still in use today on churches and other old buildings, with original locks that
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Further expanding our ability to service the higher end of the security market, we now carry key blanks for most of the high security steel doors found about the place, including also a wide variety of high security blanks for manufacturers like Mul-T-Lock, Garrison, Brisant Secure, Master and more. We can also save you a
Probably the widest selection of high security dimple lock keys in the area? Read More »
(Before you read this: If you don’t know what a “Password hash” is, read up on it. In essence, it is a way to hide the password forever, using a neat algorithm that ensures that “1”, “2”, or “password”, “Password” & “Password1” are all essentially random looking strings that give no clue what the original
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Are you worried about your bank only asking for 3 characters from your password to let you into your banking? There’s a good argument for a few tweaks there, but 3 characters is 26^3 to 1 (17576:1) against guessing (or 36^3 if alphanumeric {46656:1}) so works well in theory & practise. If someone sees what
Only 3 letters from my password? Read More »
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
Gun cabinets opened Read More »
