I ran across some interesting info this evening about the results of statistical analysis on numerical passwords (Personal Identification Numbers, AKA PIN numbers, or, more correctly, just PINs) by Nick Berry, who now works as Facebook’s Data Scientist. The article is well worth a read. http://www.datagenetics.com/blog/september32012/index.html is a direct link. Or, if you prefer, he’s […]
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(I wrote this in 2007 and found it saved as a draft today. Not much has changed since this was written. The only thing that has gone up is the hold times… Enjoy.) Me, I’m not biased. You come across as stoned, fine, come across as mad, fine. But this guy, he was special. Like
From the old days: 5 doors, one mad bloke; A day in the life of a Warrant Locksmith Read More »
Happy “National Home Security Month”. Or something. Yale have kept it rather quiet – I didn’t see anything at the Master Locksmiths Association show – but as the nights draw in again, it’s a wise idea to consider your home and business security. Criminals have far more time to work when it is cold and
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Although really just a fancy doorbell, access control, just like a doorbell, can make your life far easier. Discreet Security has just completed an installation in Malvern for a new business. The set-up of the building meant that, with their less used conference room downstairs and the bulk of the office upstairs, people were simply
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One of my happy customers, at Saint Locks in Telford, bought one of the now fairly famous Doodlebug EPGs (electric pick gun) from my lock tool shop and has sent a few photos of locks he has opened. Here is the latest one, a shot of one of two of the latest British Standard Yale
Merry Christmas to all. Happy holidays to everyone, whether existing customers or future ones. 😉
Here’s a shot of a lock destroyed by snapping. Not the usual, it came off an aluminium door, and this photo shows the way the lock case has pretty much exploded under the force of the attack. The ‘locksmith’ who did this should be prosecuted. They left the two locks on the door broken! This
Just how a lock case shouldn’t look Read More »
Not all anti-snap systems are equal. This huge steel cradle makes snapping impossible for even the most determined attackers.
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