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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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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Almost every time I go to Blackpool, Thornton, even Morecambe, I am amazed by the effect the sea salt has on the locks in the area. Even relatively new locks on high use doors are frequently worn out due to the corrosive effect of the sand and salt driven into every crevice by the often
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Bad customer service seems, more and more, to be the norm. We at Lancashire Locksmiths / NKT Security find this very sad, and we try our best to be there on time, or as fast as possible. Sometimes, we are late or slower than we would like due to traffic or other difficulties, but we
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Well, yet again, we see spam coming in on a weekly basis, asking us to “Clcik here, and verify your online bank details” and other humorously low grade spoof attempts. A lot of this is for banks, as well as the usual PayPal and eBay stuff. Today, we got a phonecall, purporting to be from
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With the rather amusing title How Jews celebrate christmas, LadyADA announced to the world her latest creation. It is a simple and cheap automatic radio frequency jammer. For not very much money, this pocket sized device will knock out cellphone calls and GPS within a 10 to 30 metre radius of itself. This has some
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