These are analogue radios, meaning their traffic is easily intercepted. One of these is a cheap licenced radio and the other is a licence-free PMR446 radio, costing around a tenner off Amazon. Neither are secure methods of communications. We have overheard confidential and highly sensitive traffic on the licence-free radios, potentially aiding the worst kinds…

A neighbour once asked me if I could get into her shed as she’d lost the key. She expected me to pick, bypass or otherwise make door open in way door wasn’t designed to open. Instead, I dug into my box and gave her a key from my collection. It worked. Unfortunately, it’s becoming harder…

Why does my consulting kit contain a tyre depth gauge? Door fitment. If I can get 4.5mm between the base of your door and the floor, there’s enough room to fit and operate an under door tool. I can get my borescope in with around 5mm. The under door tool goes through this gap and…

Domestic CCTV cameras are getting pretty liberally sprinkled around homes these days. Seeing a house bristling with professionally installed cameras capturing every angle of the property is not uncommon and Ring, Blink, etc have done an excellent job of dropping the financial and technical barrier to entry for the DIY crowd. Great. Slight problem with…

But someone can just…. I hear this a lot about adding in cheap and cheerful extra layers of security. This is the cheapest and cheerfulest. It’s a door contact sensor with a remote arm and disarm function. To bypass it, I have to detect the magnet through the door and then whip out a large…

Stairs are fun. Stairs can take me around your security controls. There are fire plans and maps around most large buildings. They’re on the walls and give a lovely overview of the place. The time they save a potential attacker is phenomenal. Taking a photo of these maps, then combining it with a simple recon…