I'm being stalked . . . please help find a pick proof lock!

[jason]

London and Biringham bars are just re-inforcing strips fixed to the frame the London bar goes along the hinge side of the frame to re-inforce the hinges the Birmingham bar is over the other side re-inforcing the keeps/strikes (the way I always remember it is Birmingham is bent to go over the strikes).

Makes no real difference as the stuff is the same whether its called Birmingham or London bar

[raimundo]

By the name of it, it sounds like a 'fox police lock' or new york police lock type of thing, the fox police lock I am familiar with has a bar to the floor, but I have seen pictures of other varients that have bars that set in strike plates on the lock and the hinge side of the door.

[raimundo]

Oops, disregard that last post, also, having brought up the 'fox police lock" does anyone know if Segal is still a lock company?

[NKT]

I take it nothing more has happened on this?

I would go with the hair trick, and there are some other neat tricks. Get yourself a good capacity digital camera, and keep it with you at all times. Take pictures of suspect cars, trucks, etc. Take pictures of things you leave where you left them, so when you think you have been messed about, you can easily take another picture, then compare them.

For a very sensitive way to tell, you can take two pictures from the exact same pioint, then compare them, and see if anything has moved or changed. Papers left at random on a table are imposible to replace perfectly.

Also, and I hate to say this, but this constant camera useage would also help to rule out any form of mental illness. I'm not saying you are a loon, but it may be that your mind or memory is playing tricks on you. This would help ease your mind in that regard.

If you think your PC is being remotely accessed, blow $10 on a new wired keyboard with the right size plug (large or small round, not a square USB, nor wireless, type). Take a close look at the lead on the old one, to see if there is an extra plug, and cut the plug off the old keyboard. Then install a BIOS password, and *always* turn your machine off when you are not using it.

Same time you buy the keyboard (not from your regular computer shop) buy a new lock for your front door (and any other doors to the outside) with one of the restricted keyways, or whatever you choose, from the lists others have posted. Don't get one with a thumb-turn! When you get home, check the house is empty. Have your partner with you, or whatever.

Then change the locks. Take one key each, and keep the restricted card for the keycoe that came with the lock somewhere safe - this may be hard, but don't trust your partner with it, nor your home security. A good solution is to write the code on some paper, and keep it in your purse. Then mail the card to someone you trust. Ask them in advance not to open it, but just hold it for you, somewhere safe, just in case. Once they confirm receipt, destroy the copy of the info.

These are the first steps. There are many others.

PM me for my email address/phone number and I will give you all the help you want.

[NKT]

Sorry, if there is an extra keyboard plug, destroy it. Even if it looks like a normal one. And the old plug off the keyboard itself.

Throw them in the river, or whatever. Throw the old keyboard away as completely as possible.

[hzatorsk]

NKT,

The user 'stalked' hasn't posted since January.

May I suggest we let this thread die.

hz

[Peaky]

Maybee he's the stalker

[jason]

More worryingly he wants the thread "to die" rather than get one of the mods to lock it.

Are the voices telling him to kill the thread???

[aviator151]

Apparently Cox keeps its employees hard at work on weekends at private residences on the outside of homes on freezing cold nights for hours at at time. Is it wrong for me to find that odd?

Actually that is pretty normal. I once had a Cox repairman come and work into the night with his truck spotlight on a fiber optic wire becuase he couldn't find where the problem in the line was, so eventually he had to lay a whole new cable underground which can take some time since he didnt want to cut any other cables in the process. That took him a few days of working, so I don't find it out of the ordinary, but like someone else said call Cox and ask if they had anyone in the area.

Also with your computer I would recommend reformatting your hard drive, and password protecting everything. And for the love of God don't use passwords like your name or birth date or anything people would know. Use random word/number combinations.

[Peaky]

Mods can you lock this thread before it starts repeating itself yet again!!

[NKT]

Actually that is pretty normal. I once had a Cox repairman come and work into the night with his truck spotlight on a fiber optic wire becuase he couldn't find where the problem in the line was, so eventually he had to lay a whole new cable underground which can take some time since he didnt want to cut any other cables in the process.

Too cheap to buy a time domain reflectometer, I guess!

You take a light, shine it down the fibre, and time how long it takes to come back from the fracture, and the end. Next you factor in the refractive index of the fibre core, and you know how far down the fibre your fault lies. Then you dig it up and fix it at the right point. Simple.

[raimundo]

before you destroy the keyboard, pull up on the space bar, you will find a nice piece of hardened wire underthere, its hard, not spring, tempered. This part of a keyboard is still collectable when the rest is destroyed.

[Mad Mick]

You take a light, shine it down the fibre, and time how long it takes to come back from the fracture, and the end. Next you factor in the refractive index of the fibre core, and you know how far down the fibre your fault lies. Then you dig it up and fix it at the right point. Simple.

Unless The Regiment are the ones making the break in the lines...
The line repair crews in Iraq, during Desert Storm, got a few nasty surprises from Regiment 'Lucky Bags' left at the site of the break and were not surprisingly reluctant to attend further jobs...

[NKT]

Unless The Regiment are the ones making the break in the lines...
The line repair crews in Iraq, during Desert Storm, got a few nasty surprises from Regiment 'Lucky Bags' left at the site of the break and were not surprisingly reluctant to attend further jobs...

...but generally unlikely in your average urban(e) settings...

...unless you are being stalked by the least subtle person in the world (You know, the guy over there with the grenades, rifle and hovertank, behind the burning police cars)

[Mad Mick]

An old quote from where my memory chooses not to remember the author:
"Just because you're paranoid, it doesn't mean that they are not out to get you!"