Real Physical Security

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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