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Those things aren't designed for the dedicated guy who can pick it, they're designed for someone who breaks in and just grabs laptops as they go.
by AtheistOfFail 10y ago
Those things aren't designed for the dedicated guy who can pick it, they're designed for someone who breaks in and just grabs laptops as they go.
- Godel_unicode 10y agoThis expands to the general case purpose of locks. They're not to guarantee security, but rather to raise the threshold. Much like DRM, they're all about preventing easy mass theft.
- arkades 10y agoI think his point is: it takes little skill (because I figured out how to do it on the fly) and little equipment (ziptie). Implicitly: anyone with any interest in grabbing laptops could spend 5 minutes on youtube and 5 minutes prepping a ziptie, and maybe 20 minutes practicing, and be as capable of walking around grabbing laptops as he was before the security locks were purchased.
- ohyes 10y agoAnd you'd just use some wire cutters for that.