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.
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