Keys & security
Do you have your front door key on the same keyring as your car key?
Does your car have an inbuilt sat-nav or do you hide your sat-nav in the glove compartment?
If so, you could be seriously compromising your home security.
Most of us set a home destination into our sat-navs. Some keep a record of your journeys. This means if someone steals or finds your keys, they could have all the information they need to find out where you live along with the keys to enter your home easily and take what they want. Even if you use your mobile phone as a sat-nav, all that needs to happen is for your bag to go missing with your keys and phone in it, and they have all the info they need once they have hacked your password.
So how do we protect ourselves?
For a start, never save your home address in your sat-nav. Use an address a couple of roads away. You should be able to find your way for the last bit of your journey. Try to keep door keys and car keys separate. This may be a hassle, but could save you from burglary. Keep your phone and anything else that holds personal information away from your keys. Not only does keeping your phone out of your bag/case make you safer, it has the added bonus of making you easier to contact as you are more likely to hear it ring. Yes, your phone might be more exposed, but better your phone than the irreplaceable things like Grandad’s war medals, or a young one’s christening bracelet (two items stolen from a recent burglary victim I spoke to).
If you would like any more information about the above issues then please feel free to contact me via my the ways listed on my contacts page.
Thanks for reading.
Does your car have an inbuilt sat-nav or do you hide your sat-nav in the glove compartment?
If so, you could be seriously compromising your home security.
Keys & security
Most of us set a home destination into our sat-navs. Some keep a record of your journeys. This means if someone steals or finds your keys, they could have all the information they need to find out where you live along with the keys to enter your home easily and take what they want. Even if you use your mobile phone as a sat-nav, all that needs to happen is for your bag to go missing with your keys and phone in it, and they have all the info they need once they have hacked your password.
So how do we protect ourselves?
For a start, never save your home address in your sat-nav. Use an address a couple of roads away. You should be able to find your way for the last bit of your journey. Try to keep door keys and car keys separate. This may be a hassle, but could save you from burglary. Keep your phone and anything else that holds personal information away from your keys. Not only does keeping your phone out of your bag/case make you safer, it has the added bonus of making you easier to contact as you are more likely to hear it ring. Yes, your phone might be more exposed, but better your phone than the irreplaceable things like Grandad’s war medals, or a young one’s christening bracelet (two items stolen from a recent burglary victim I spoke to).
If you would like any more information about the above issues then please feel free to contact me via my the ways listed on my contacts page.
Thanks for reading.
