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posted by [personal profile] oldbloke at 11:18am on 14/05/2007 under
A company called ABK have a desk in our reception area where they rent laptops to students.
The lass there went to get something from our storeroom for a customer, and came out to see him departing - with her laptop.
Our fearless Info Desk team, Stuart and Mali, gave chase and got the machine back.
Not wanting to get into an actual fight, they didn't attempt to hold the guy, but he knows he can't come back into our building, and descriptions etc are going to Uni security
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posted by [identity profile] artela.livejournal.com at 10:57am on 14/05/2007
Well, now you know how they procure the laptops they loan out ;-)

I suggest getting the Uni to check out the company concerned, not just dealing with the one individual?
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posted by [identity profile] k425.livejournal.com at 11:28am on 14/05/2007
You may be misunderstanding. The company's okay, it was a customer who tried to leg it with a laptop.
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posted by [identity profile] artela.livejournal.com at 11:58am on 14/05/2007
Oh - right...

...it sounded like it was the guy running the stall - I misunderstood.
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posted by [personal profile] hooloovoo_42 at 11:11am on 14/05/2007
I assume they don't supply Kensington locks with the laptops they rent out. At my last place, we would have been severely slapped for not securing the thing, even in the office.
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posted by [identity profile] oldbloke.livejournal.com at 11:16am on 14/05/2007
No, I don't think they do. This was her own-use one, though, not one of the rental ones - they're out of stock just now in any case. It ought to have been secured to the desk, I suppose: I doubt they've ever even thought about it before.
Most of the Uni-owned machines in here are chained down, but the padlocks and chains wouldn't withstand a standard boltcutter.
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posted by [identity profile] caramel-betty.livejournal.com at 12:03pm on 14/05/2007
I doubt they've ever even thought about it before

If true, this should set sufficient alarm bells ringing that they can be heard the length and breadth of Britain.

It may also be worth enquiring what information is being stored on laptops, and how. (For example, the database of customers' addresses, credit card details, and such.)
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posted by [personal profile] hooloovoo_42 at 03:58pm on 14/05/2007
Too few people think anything about a) laptop security and b) security of the data held therein.

In these days of easy, fast networking, nobody should be allowed to store anything that has any level of sensitivity on a hard drive, let alone a laptop hard drive. Losing such data should be dealt with much more severely.
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posted by [identity profile] oldbloke.livejournal.com at 07:30pm on 14/05/2007
What, coz a lappy isn't chained down? How many are then?
There's no sensitive data on it as far as I know, all that goes direct to the company's servers over t'net. It /might/ be worth checking that side of things, but they're not part of the Uni and the Uni doesn't endorse them, just rents them a table. But, y'know, in my role as a member of the security team, I just might check it out.
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