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or brown with black and white stripes?
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Hi All,
Name changed to avoid, well In fury I spelt it wrong!
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Several months ago the firm I work for Decided the best way to prevent theft of PC assets in the office was to use Kingston locks. So I have come up with three ways to defeat them so far 5 if you are allowed to violence (cutting the cable & smacking the lock really hard), all they really do is get in the way. My point is they are okay if you are working on a laptop in a remote site. But at your normal desk in a locked and alarmed building, which if you are going to break in you will have sufficient tools these locks won't be an issue. All these thing do is get in the **** way
 <'/rantMode'> Calm thought! and tea
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attach it to something like a hole punch, if questioned tell them people keep stealing your [hole punch] but no ones ever taken the computer.
or attach it to a trash can, if asked tell them all the files on your computer are encrypted but they are un-encrypted into temp files, i.e. when edited, and afterwards some of those temp files end up in the trash.
apart from picking the lock only one other skill required: keeping a straight face.
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I just watched the "cardboard" one, and thought "Amateur! I've got the proper tool for those locks!" And yes, I have. You can buy them for around a tenner on Fleabay ...
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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Well, I thought that too... I didn't buy mine, I made it...
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Ive been in offices, alarmed, when they raided they just grabbed all laptops and ran. Now if each laptop is protected by a silly cable it delays the thugs by 10 seconds for each laptop. It will cut into their volume, and most probably cut into their likelihood of even considering that office. Methinks.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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OK, but we are top floor with no easy access...
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Is that top floor a third floor in an industrial area with no residents?
If so, would think it's easy enough to get access using a crowbar and a 2" by 4"
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They protect management in the sense that they did "all they could"; that's worth a few dimes. It's a nice argument on paper to show that you take security "seriously". After all, they're spending on it.
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Just to make lives harder... Baskets the lot of them...
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My laptop is locked to it's docking station - with a key for my key ring and everything!
...of course, there is nothing holding the extra slim, lightweight docking station down except the power and network cables!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I have 10 machines with them. I use them to prevent the opportunist theft.
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Yeah, I worked art a place that locked up keyboards at night, too. It took me a few minutes to figure out how to defeat that system. Then my boss had trouble and asked me if I could help. I said just leave me alone for an hour with your computer and don't report it to corporate security. He did and I spent a few minutes fixing his lock, then drank coffee for 45 minutes. Corporate security questioned everyone, but never figurd out it got defeated. Fun times!
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Since when do IT policies got anything to do with reality? Serious question from someone working in R&D for a couple years now.
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Should I worry about not worrying about being paranoid?
What about if I'm not paranoid - should I still worry about being paranoid or worry about not being paranoid or not worrying about it.
Maybe it's best to not worry about not worrying about it?
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Don't worry, we really are all out to get you!
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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You'll be fine, just put that nice jacket on i got for you...
See, everything will be good again...
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Now I'm worried about you! 
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Marc Clifton wrote: Now I'm worried about you!
Why thanks! Problem solved!
As long as someone worries about me then I guess I don't have to worry about worrying.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: Should I worry about not worrying about being paranoid?
Being paranoid is the only realistic and healthy reaction to todays world 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Don't worry, Be happy!
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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My wife has an iphone and practices general safety with it. Yesterday she was innocently reading an article on a site from a link on Facebook (I know, I know, but think end-user).
From that article, she clicked on another link to read another article*.
*More about this in a moment
While reading the article she got the following pop-up alert and texted me to ask if it was legit.
https://i.stack.imgur.com/NYhYQ.png[^]
I explained that it was not. I told her the best thing she could do is turn her phone off and back on.
Norton: Does It Do Anything?
At this point I installed Norton Security Essentials on her phone but all it did was say, "You should connect to safe networks". It was tough for me to figure out what it was saying, but basically it was saying don't use wifi at the coffee shop or whatever.
Normal End-Users Have No Chance
I was completely confused about the iphone. I couldn't really check the web site she was looking at using VirusTotal.com because we weren't sure which site she visited. We began wondering if (even though she hadn't clicked on the pop-up) her phone had been compromised.
Even Norton didn't seem to be scanning for viruses or anything. It just sat there and stared at us. And oh, yes, it told us "Norton will make sure you have the latest OS updates". Is that all you need to insure your iPhone hasn't been compromised?
It's No Wonder Everyone Has Given Up On Security
Every time I run into an issue like this I am always convinced that security is setup to help the scammers.
End-User : Safe Through Obscurity
The poor end-user is basically safe only because there are 100s of millions of other people who probably exercise less security than you do.
What About My Wife's Unsafe Behavior of Clicking Links?*
I told my wife, "well, you really can't just read articles on various sites like that."
She said, "Well, what's the freaking purpose of having a phone and Internet and all this if you can't really go anywhere on the Internet?" It's a good question really. Why is there so much unsafe stuff out there (why don't devices just not even allow the stuff to be seen?)
VirusTotal Explanation
I told her, "well, anytime you want to read an article on a site you should go to VirusTotal[^] first and enter the full URL that you will visit and allow it to scan it.
"It's not worth it," she said.
And as an end-user, I can totally understand that.
Meanwhile, we really have no definitive answer that her iphone** isn't compromised. it's really quite stupid. 
**She has a iphone XS Max with all updates applied.
PS - we did a VirusTotal.com scan of the web site mentioned in the pop-up screen at the top and it said that site is clean, which it may be but the site has to be questionable since it contains a spelling error.
UPDATE - Check Out This New Article Headline
Message to IT: Trusting Apple and Google for mobile app security is career suicide | Computerworld[^]
modified 1-Jul-19 9:07am.
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The grammar in that is atrocious.
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