Kensington Lock Kryptonited, Company Silent

Darren Barefoot reports that apparently all you need to break into a Kensington laptop lock are some scissors, duct tape and a toilet paper roll. This crisis features a video (WMV, 7.5 MB) of someone cracking the popular laptop lock in just two minutes. Boing Boing and Gizmodo have picked it up and Barefoot fears that Kensington could be Kryptonited. Ahh if only Kensington had a "lockbox blog" in the can ready to go they would be ready to engage the blogosphere in a conversation in a moment like this. Considering that Kensington is in the same space as Kryptonite (broadly defined as security) there's really no excuse for this. Follow the action here. Because, unfortunately, you can't here.

Comments

[Steve Hall]

I wonder why this is a big deal now. Someone sent me this video a week ago, I did some Google work and found that this info has been out since last August...even referencing the toilet paper roll trick. I figured, hey, it's old news. Why cover it. Now, oddly, bloggers are all over it. Hmm.

[Steve Rubel]

Steve, half the stuff in the blogosphere is old by the time the press start writing about it as well.

[Patrick Schriner]

I never regarded Kensington locks as save. Heck, they don´t even look save. The cables are ridiculously thin, most notebooks cases are plastic which you can break the lock off easily. (Not that I had ever tried this myself)

[Michael Nguyen]

Even worse - I tried to contact their PR to warn them and see how they would react. I got passed over to a filter person who told me to upload the video to their ftp. To bad they didn't give me access to it.

I shouldn't need to jump through a ton of hoops to help them out.

[Jim]

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