I was reading New Scientist (last weeks issue, 12/12/09), and I stumbled across a small but interesting story on page 7: A Chinese woman used plastic surgery to fool a biometric fingerprint scanner. The appropriately named Lin Rong was arrested in Japan for being an illegal immigrant. Police report that she had swapped skin patches
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Followers of this blog will probably recall our whitepaper on combination padlocks, and the mention of the mechanical keysafes available, especially the poor security of some of them. Today I received another keysafe. This unit is branded Asec, and also some are branded Burton. At first glance, it looks like the high security Supra keysafe
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Here’s a report I found online, reporting on a 2-man crimewave using bumpkeys. Lasting over several years, the police had a very good idea who was behind it, and despite traiing them for 2 years theey never got them red-handed. However, when police eventually went to one of their houses, they found it packed with
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Here’s an interesting job. Called to open a door in the countryside south of Tenbury Wells, with lost keys. I tried picking it, and nothing. No movement, nothing’s working. I finally get the door open without damage, open the lock case, and see this. A family of wasps had built a home inside it, out
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A recent job took rather longer than might be expected from the task – “Fit a door closer”. However, due to careful pre-planning and two site visits, the actual installation went well. The door that required a closer mechanism, to firmly lock the door for security, but also to reduce the thunderous impact of the
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If it was as easy as pay a few hundred pounds, take a short training course and earn more money than a doctor, then doctors would be doing [locksmithing]! 1 Martin Pink, Rapid Locksmiths, Nottingham The state of the locksmith industry is a poor one. Training houses are churning out hundreds, perhaps thousands, of new
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