[tech] Re: Suggestions for locking down Mac mice? (fwd)

Mark Tearle mtearle at ucs.uwa.edu.au
Wed Feb 14 22:15:26 WST 2001


Hmm, this sounds like a good idea for when we are securing the console boxen...

Yours
Mark
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 07:42:30 -0600
From: Clint Forseth <CForseth at STCLOUDSTATE.EDU>
Reply-To: Resnet Forum <RESNET-L at listserv.nd.edu>
To: RESNET-L at listserv.nd.edu
Subject: Re: Suggestions for locking down Mac mice?

We choose to lock down our mice by taking a washer and running a small
portion of the mice/keyboard/etc cable through the washer.  This creates
a small loop (or "U") on the backside of the washer that you can run a
security cable through.   Since we were already running security cables
through plates on the computers and monitors in the residence halls
labs, it was easy just to add this washer senario without causing major
loss of cord length.  Done right, you should not lose a whole lot of
cord length.  This way the only way a student or someone else can get
the mouse or other corded devices off the computer is to cut the cord
somewhere cause the device nor its plug can get though the washer that
has the security cable running through the loop of cord(that is of
course that you get a washer smaller than the plug).

Cheap, yet affective.  If I didn't make sense let me know and I can try
to explain better.  Its cold out and I don't function well til after my
caffine fix.

Clint Forseth
ResNet Coordinator
St. Cloud State University


>
> Has anyone found a good way to lock down Mac mice so they
> can't be stolen
> from a computing site?  We're putting new dual processor G4s in some
> computing sites and need to find a way to lock down the new
> Pro Mouse.  This
> was never a concern before because no one wanted to steal a
> one button mouse
> and certainly no one wanted to steal the hockey puck mouse, but I'm
> concerned that the optical Pro Mouse might be a little more inviting.
>

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