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I saw this this morning – have a great weekend:

Roger

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  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
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  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
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  • Anonymous
    January 14, 2011
    Thanks, cloned: blogs.pcmag.com/.../real_physical_security.php

  • Anonymous
    January 15, 2011
    Hello, where did you find this pic? Did you take it?

  • Anonymous
    January 15, 2011
    Could you please put this under Creative Commons? It's a great pic and I would like to use it in a presentation.

  • Anonymous
    January 15, 2011
    +1 on what Joakim Jardenberg asked.

  • Anonymous
    January 17, 2011
    This picture can really speak well about security!

  • Anonymous
    January 18, 2011
    That's particularly funny since it looks like the chain was long enough without the extra three links.

  • Anonymous
    January 18, 2011
    Not much difference between a Master Lock and a zip tie anyway.  Just about the easiest lock to pick or shim there is...

  • Anonymous
    January 18, 2011
    They probably lost the key.  The zipties are the opening link now!

  • Anonymous
    January 26, 2011
    Like everything else in the security world...the illusion of security is enough...or maybe it was a case of poor key control...www.keysure.net

  • Anonymous
    January 27, 2011
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  • Anonymous
    January 27, 2011
    No chain is stronger than its weakest link !

  • Anonymous
    January 27, 2011
    I might use this as a Security Awareness Poster. Caption: "Don't be the ziptie"

  • Anonymous
    January 27, 2011
    Another request for Creative commons (or other) license so I can use this ... thanks.

  • Anonymous
    January 27, 2011
    3 people wanting the picture for free, and not one offering to send you money. A pity but far from a surprise.

  • Anonymous
    January 27, 2011
    @Contrarian: Well, to be fair - it would not take much effort to reproduce.

  • Anonymous
    January 28, 2011
    @Contrarian: They could simply take the picture and use it without asking anything. I understand that the ones asking for a CC license are simply willing to use the image but not to pay for it, which is a legitimate request. It's up to the author to accept or decline those requests, and I'm quite sure that if this is not made available under a CC license, no one of the requesters will use the photo anywhere. Like I'm sure that other people will use that without permission, even without saying anything here in the comments. About the picture itself, good capture!

  • Anonymous
    January 28, 2011
    Great picture - and yes, I would love to use it in a presentation as well... Would offer another security pic in compensation (which I would have to upload from home) - or anything else which appears reasonable :)

  • Anonymous
    January 28, 2011
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  • Anonymous
    January 28, 2011
    Keep in mind the possibility that the ziptie was placed by the person breaching the original security.

  • Anonymous
    January 28, 2011
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  • Anonymous
    January 28, 2011
    Oh, and... Splendid picture. I wonder how many would pick the lock before realising that they could've simply cut the tie. :-)

  • Anonymous
    January 28, 2011
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  • Anonymous
    January 28, 2011
    I worked at a factory where we did something similar at the parking lot entrance to the property.  We had a hook to hang a link on, with the padlock visible.  We knew it was theater, but it discouraged those whom we wanted to discourage from coming on the property.  Without the theater, semis would park on our parking lot overnight.  With it, no such problem. Every employee with a legitimate reason to be there did not need to carry a key. The main facility had much more elaborate security, but the security theater did what we asked of it.  

  • Anonymous
    January 28, 2011
    @Ryan Barrett: are you serious? A better caption might be "A Waste of Steel", or "Is this 90% secure?", or "Are the Steel Links Strong Enough?"

  • Anonymous
    January 30, 2011
    This would be a great picture for the wikipedia article en.wikipedia.org/.../Security_theater . But we need an unambiguous license declaration; "the picture is public on a public site" is not enough.

  • Anonymous
    February 03, 2011
    Looks like our border.

  • Anonymous
    October 29, 2011
    classic

  • Anonymous
    January 22, 2013
    I don't think that this kind of physical security is safe, anyone can break it with help of hammer or other tool.

  • Anonymous
    February 19, 2014
    Like many, we use a visible lock on a chain fastened with a concealed snap because a gate or exit often cannot be locked for fire code, logistical, or legal reasons. A few might get through, but the coyotes got to eat something.

  • Anonymous
    March 05, 2014
    As soon as any company goes public they become beholden to stock holders.

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    July 20, 2014
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