[ltp] Don't trust the kensington lock socket

[Florian Manschwetus]

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Glenn schrieb:
> Florian Manschwetus wrote:
>> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh schrieb:
>>> On Fri, 08 Feb 2008, Chan-Wah Ng wrote:
>>>> Not good! But this wasn't a failure of the lock: the lock device is
>>>> intact, and remains in the secured position. The TP was quite clearly
>>>> ripped away from the lock, tearing out the corner of the machine.
>>>>
>>>>  The kensington socket was never meant to prevent theft ... it's job 
>>>> is to
>>>> deter casual thieves, and prevent the not-so-casual ones from 
>>>> reselling the
>>>> laptop (nobody would buy a 2nd-hand laptop that is clearly stolen -- 
>>>> with
>>>> the lock socket broken).
>>>
>>> Maybe, but at least my T43 has the kensington socket in the left metal
>>> hinge, so you have to do a bit more than just break a sheet of 
>>> plastic to
>>> rip it out.  There is plastic over it, but you can clearly see the metal
>>> sheet behind the plastic.  It is thin and you can probably bend it 
>>> with any
>>> sort of leverage, though. :(
>>>
>>> Also, it is trivial to get a replacement cover or hinge.  Lenovo just 
>>> plain
>>> screwed up if the kensigton lock on any thinkpad is plastic-only.  It 
>>> is bad
>>> enough that the one in the T43 is much more plastic than metal, anyway.
>>>
>>> Kensington should license this false-sense-of-security lock design 
>>> only for
>>> designs that have at least 1mm of steel in the socket, IMO.  Not that it
>>> would make it much safer, but it would be less of a joke.
>>>
>> Just to unjoke it, my T60 has 2mm steel plate into the kensington lock 
>> socket.
>> And further more as far as I know the kensington lock damages the 
>> system-board so a thinkpad should be heavily damaged when the 
>> kensington lock is ripped off.
>>
>> Florian
> Thats very reassuring to know that the asshole that stole my thinkpad 
> will end up throwing it in the bin :)
> 
> Glenn
Or he went to Support and gets arrested if you already informed the 
Support that you ThinkPad was stolen.
Also are there already Blacklists with MAC's of stolen ThinkPads which 
are checked by some international providers, as far as i know (e.g. 
T-Online HotSpots)

Florian

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