*Not* snowed in
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.
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Pickbuster authorised agent for Birmingham and the West Midlands
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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Oh, the drama – local earthquake!
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. 😉
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Good news for customers of some other locksmiths
New regulations to clamp down on unfair trading This is great news, and will help put a lot of the rogue traders out of business. And there are few places with more cowboys than the “Driller Killer” locksmiths, whose work I am so frequently seeing. Even some of the large locksmithing organisations support drilling as
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Investments
It’s that time of year again, where we survey the market and decide what area would be most profitable and useful to expand. Hence we have just ordered a new selection of high-end car tools to try out, all the way from Australia. Assuming they are as good as they claim to be, we will
Why do we have Chip & Pin?
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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Van problems
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
Nationals playing naughty tricks
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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Social engineering in action
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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Empty housing – a social crime?
This is a bit of a social comment. When I am out doing work for councils and companies, I get to go to some really charming places. Others are not so charming. Others, well, they leave you scratching your head. This street in Manchester is typical of a number that I see when doing my
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