--- Forwarded Message from Ursula Williams <[log in to unmask]> --- >In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> >Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 10:40:28 -0500 >To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum <[log in to unmask]> >From: Ursula Williams <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Re: #5039 trip-line security ------------------ Hi Wendy, and anyone else interested in this topic. Here at Notre Dame we had our Security Police install a security system that includes motion sensors, devices on the doors (one part on the jamb and one part on the door. The ones on the doors don't touch, so I suspect it may work on some sort of magnetic field concept) and trip wires as you describe, except that it is actually optical fiber. The latter are much like what you see in department stores to secure portable electronic equipment. There's a number pad mounted by the telephone in the main lab. The system resembles home security systems I have seen, as a matter of fact. This has been in place for about five years and has been very effective. The beeping from the alarm is so loud that it alerts everyone in the room. The system also contacts security. Officers have been extremely prompt in arriving, even though every single one of our alarms has been a false one. (We trip it inadvertently by forgetting to bypass it when we move equipment. In one case, someone's foot got entangled in a coiled trip wire that had fallen from its hook.) I certainly believe that the false alarms have been beneficial as a deterrent. Everyone leaps into action, and a campus cop shows up. Students believe that everything in here is wired. In the case of iMacs, we just ran the wire through the handle. You could also run it through the "grommet" in that little door that accesses ports, but I think somebody could just get that door off, so the carrying handle is probably better. Our lab is divided into zones. One zone can be bypassed while the rest remain armed. Each student worker has a unique security code, and we can easily identify who did what. Housekeeping has a code as well, and the police do, but that's all. Effectively, no one can even get into the labs unless we know about it. Hope this helps. Ursula >--- Forwarded Message from Wendy Baker Davis <[log in to unmask]> --- > >>Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 09:11:31 +0100 >>From: Wendy Baker Davis <[log in to unmask]> >>Subject: trip-line security >>To: [log in to unmask] > >I am struggling with how to secure 16 new IMacs in my Language Resource >Center. They don't appear to have any built-in slots for "kablit-style" >locks or even a cable-guide to thread a security cable through. At other >institutions I visited years ago, some directors had a sort of "trip-line" >that was threaded through all the computers and ?sounded an alarm if >someone pulled a cpu out and away from the others, cut it, or tried to >unthread it. If you have/had such a system, could you please tell me >briefly how it actually functionned and how well it worked and any details >on price or vendor if you know it. Any other suggestions would be welcomed >as well. >Thanks >Wendy