Physically securing desktop lab computers

[Billfred]

Originally Posted by indieFan

Have you looked at the other computer labs on campus to see how they handle the cables? I know that the lab that I worked in had some sort of lock that was put on. It drove us nuts when we had to change the monitor connections for the professor's laptop and back, but it definitely prevented any thefts.

If your campus labs don't have anything like that, call ITR for CSUN's College of Engineering and Computer Science and ask what they use. Send me an email (not PM) if you want their phone number.

indieFan

The normal method of securing most computer hardware around here is wetware (read: a responsible human in the lab when people are there, and a locked door when they aren't). Of course, we don't have the manpower or money (or space, really) to put a warm body in the lab 24/7, and history has proven that anything that's locked up around here (even if the key is just at the front desk) rarely gets used.

I will look into the lock, though.