It has been weeks since the last update to the Locksmith’s blog here, so, since this Saturday morning is quite quiet, and I have time to sit here and type something, rather than being on the phone or out and about (or both!) I thought I would post about the Skype attack. No-one is yet
Just a short post to say that the company van is back on the road, after a small mistake with ordering the wrong hose. So give us a bell, so we can blow the cobwebs out! Just kidding. It was back on the road on Friday evening, so has already done a few jobs. 🙂
If like me you have fun trying to recall the seventeen different PIN numbers you have, and so now only use a single card for everything, while the others gather dust and interest charges, you might like to know one of the reasons why signature verification was phased out for most things. I’m not going
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Sadly, the company van died on Tuesday, blowing a water hose and emptying the radiator all over the road. Currently, service is pretty much unaffected, however, although on-site key cutting is not practical at this time, and any full strip uPVC replacements or door repairs will be slightly limited. Parts are on order, and normal
A collegue tells me that in his area, one large series of adverts in one of the big phone books by one national advertiser actually has many small adverts, all with local addresses, all across the area. They are desperate to look like a local company, and, to be fair, if they are prepared to
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A site I frequent, Lockpicking101.com, recently had a small competition, wherein one member challenged the rest to find out his first name, for prizes based on the time it took. He doesn’t use his firstname, and goes by his second name at all times, even on legal stuff. So a lot of people started trawlling
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