🚀 go-pugleaf

On 31/7/03 1:19 AM, in article vifog3bogds528@corp.supernews.com, "Sloopy"
<sloopy@hangon.xyz> wrote:

> In article <BB4D5D3B.18F1%duncanfarrow@iprimus.com.au>,
> Duncan Farrow <duncanfarrow@iprimus.com.au> wrote:
> 
>> On 30/7/03 9:52 AM, in article
>> 1fyv72g.mhslo916s50ggN%neillmassello@earthlink.net, "Neill Massello"
>> <neillmassello@earthlink.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> Duncan Farrow <duncanfarrow@iprimus.com.au> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> If I leave the machine on my desk, plugged into the power, it is less
>>>> secure from theft than if it is locked away somewhere out of sight.
>>> 
>>> Have you considered the security cable products, such as Kensington's
>>> <http://www.microsaver.com/>?
>> 
>> I have one of these - but I don't trust it to hold out against a determined
>> thief that has gone to the trouble of breaking into my office in the dead of
>> night. I've not tried it but I bet a hand-held cable cutter or bolt cutters
>> could get through a cable lock in less than a minute.  The thief can then
>> remove the part still attached to the powerbook at their leisure.
> 
> I think the Kensington product is designed to keep a light-fingered
> co-employed from "borrowing" your laptop.
> 

Although, as Neill says, it would be fairly easy to cut the cable with the
right tool, it wouldn't be easy (if it's possible at all) to get the
Kensington fitting out without making a mess of the case. Kensington's logic
is that a laptop with an obviously buggered case is not as saleable,
therefore not worth stealing.

As always, nothing can stop a thief who has enough time and tools. All you
can do is slow them down - hopefully enough that they'll stick to easier
things. 

David