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Pickbuster authorised agent for Birmingham and the West Midlands

Leave a Comment / Commentary, Crime, Jobs, on-line / By Nigel Tolley

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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“Ban the BumpKey” campaign

Leave a Comment / Crime, tools / By Nigel Tolley

A new campaign, backed by the ICL and several other organisations, aims to get the law changed, so that burglary tools such as bumpkeys, that have no legitimate uses to hobbiests or anyone other than professional locksmiths and the security forces, are restricted to those with a real need. Bumpkeys are designed to open a

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Is your insurance company going to cover you?

Leave a Comment / Crime, tips / By Nigel Tolley

The new British Standards require you to have higher security on your doors of your home for your insurance to be valid, as the bolt throw increased from 14mm to 20mm a few years ago, and with the recent economic downturn and subsequently increased burglary rate, especially of commercial property, many locksmiths are reporting a

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Change your alarm codes every year

3 Comments / Crime, Jobs, tips, Whoops! / By Nigel Tolley

I helped in the execution of a warrant yesterday, one where the previous attempt to get in had left the lock butchered and inoperable after about 2 hours without access being gained, and two pretty big holes through it. I spent some time working on this one to open it and sort it out, before

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Why do we have Chip & Pin?

Leave a Comment / Commentary, Crime / By Nigel Tolley

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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Empty housing – a social crime?

Leave a Comment / Cheers & Jeers, Commentary, Crime / By Nigel Tolley

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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Locksmith on £2,750 benefit fraud charges – we need licensing!

Leave a Comment / Cheers & Jeers, Commentary, Crime / By Nigel Tolley

http://www.peterborough.gov.uk/page-4620 From August 19th 2005: — Locksmith sentenced on £2,750 benefit fraud charges A self-employed locksmith, who fraudulently claimed more than £2,750 in job seeker’s allowance and housing benefit while working, was given a 40-hours community punishment order and told to pay £100 prosecution costs at Peterborough Magistrates’ Court yesterday (Thursday 18 August). Darron Williams,

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Bumpkeys – what they are, and how to stop them!

Leave a Comment / Crime, Jobs / By Nigel Tolley

(Continued from yesterday’s post) So, how do we stop this new and very effective attack? Buying your own keyway is possible for a large company or the very wealthy – get in touch! – but, for the rest of us, there are only two options. The first is to buy a bump-proof lock. As far

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Bumpkeys – what they are

Leave a Comment / Crime, Jobs / By Nigel Tolley

Bumpkeys are specially cut down keys that will open almost any cylinder lock currently on the market. Sometimes they are temperamental, and other times they will open an otherwise very secure lock in a matter of seconds. Your uPVC door is probably at risk, along with your expensive Mul-T-Lock or Garrison cylinders at work. Lever

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Too much security, re-visited

Leave a Comment / Commentary, Crime, on-line / By Nigel Tolley

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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