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Re: Creating a list of hot items...

#34839
From: Tim Maroney
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 1988 19:28
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In article <1400@aucs.UUCP> peter@aucs.UUCP (Peter Steele) writes:
>> With that much equipment loss, can't you convince your management to invest
>> in security locking devices. I've never seen these used, but I understand
>> that all macs have this place for a cable to tie it down a bit.
>
>We have our Macs hooked into a security circuit. The only way to remove a
>Mac is to cut the coax cable making up the circuit. If that happens, an alarm
>goes off in the security office. We also have the Macs tied down with security
>cables...

But isn't it awfully easy to bridge such a setup?  That is, you just strip
a little insulation and bypass the segment you're going to cut?
-- 
Tim Maroney, Consultant, Eclectic Software, sun!hoptoad!tim
"I see little divinity about them or you.  You talk to me of Christianity
 when you are in the act of hanging your enemies.  Was there ever such
 blasphemous nonsense!" - Shaw, "The Devil's Disciple"
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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Creating a list of hot items...
Message-ID: <5979@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 30 Nov 88 19:28:29 GMT
References: <71340@felix.UUCP> <1400@aucs.UUCP>
Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco
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