Mice and Keyboards getting stolen

DanW · 29-11-2008, 01:52 PM

The lovely kids keeps stealing mice and keyboard from our IT Rooms

does anyone know of any products that will help prevent theft?

I would use cable ties but they are a bit crap

TIA

Dan

AngryTechnician · 29-11-2008, 02:12 PM

Some Kensington locks have cable retainers. You can also add your own by pushing a loop of the cable to be retained through the centre hole of a metal washer, and passing the Kensington lock cable through the loop.

timbo343 · 29-11-2008, 02:20 PM

A cable tie... tie it to the monitor cable, network cable, power cable and mouse & keyboard. Im sure they wont wonder off with them then.

FN-GM · 29-11-2008, 02:25 PM

We cable tie ours and every now and then they do go walk about. We have had 2 mice cut from the cable last week because they couldnt get them separated from the other wires

timbo343 · 29-11-2008, 02:27 PM

bloody hell, if that was to happen to ours, we would find out everyone who had been on that machine, and ban them all, so they would have to come and talk to us, then they would have to pay £5 to replace it. They soon learn

FN-GM · 29-11-2008, 02:28 PM

We used to do that, but they soon started taking them from other machines that they hadn't used. It doesn't happen as much anymore due to the room activation system

Sylv3r · 29-11-2008, 02:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by timbo343

A cable tie... tie it to the monitor cable, network cable, power cable and mouse & keyboard. Im sure they wont wonder off with them then.

Same here, we don't lose any. Although, even the ones we don't cable tie don't go missing either so I guess we are just lucky.

Heebeejeebee · 29-11-2008, 04:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DanW

does anyone know of any products that will help prevent theft?

A very, very big stick

We've started to use the cheapest, nastiest keyboards and mice we can get our hands on. No-body want to steal them any more.

HBJB

wagnerk · 30-11-2008, 04:56 PM

We've plastic cable tied them & metal tied them. With the plastic cable tied the students just cut the tied, with the metal tied they just wreck the kb & mouse. However the damage with the metal cable ties is less than the amount of equipment that was "taken" with or without the plastic cable ties.

Due to the cost of the metal cable ties we've done what Heebeejeebee does:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Heebeejeebee

We've started to use the cheapest, nastiest keyboards and mice we can get our hands on.

-Ken

plexer · 30-11-2008, 05:02 PM

We use nylon p clips, pass the cable through these and screw them in using one of case screws.

Just seeing who has logged on to a pc doesn't give you a great indication.

Ben

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DanW Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 64 Thanks: 3 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post Rep Power: 4	Mice and Keyboards getting stolen The lovely kids keeps stealing mice and keyboard from our IT Rooms does anyone know of any products that will help prevent theft? I would use cable ties but they are a bit crap TIA Dan

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29-11-2008, 02:12 PM	#2
AngryTechnician Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 159 Thanks: 18 Thanked 12 Times in 9 Posts Rep Power: 4	Some Kensington locks have cable retainers. You can also add your own by pushing a loop of the cable to be retained through the centre hole of a metal washer, and passing the Kensington lock cable through the loop.

29-11-2008, 02:20 PM	#3
timbo343 Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Leeds/York area, North Yorkshire Posts: 926 Thanks: 9 Thanked 19 Times in 18 Posts Rep Power: 11	A cable tie... tie it to the monitor cable, network cable, power cable and mouse & keyboard. Im sure they wont wonder off with them then.

29-11-2008, 02:25 PM	#4
FN-GM Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Rochdale, Lancashire Posts: 5,124 Thanks: 168 Thanked 179 Times in 173 Posts Rep Power: 43	We cable tie ours and every now and then they do go walk about. We have had 2 mice cut from the cable last week because they couldnt get them separated from the other wires

29-11-2008, 02:27 PM	#5
timbo343 Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Leeds/York area, North Yorkshire Posts: 926 Thanks: 9 Thanked 19 Times in 18 Posts Rep Power: 11	bloody hell, if that was to happen to ours, we would find out everyone who had been on that machine, and ban them all, so they would have to come and talk to us, then they would have to pay £5 to replace it. They soon learn

29-11-2008, 02:28 PM	#6
FN-GM Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Rochdale, Lancashire Posts: 5,124 Thanks: 168 Thanked 179 Times in 173 Posts Rep Power: 43	We used to do that, but they soon started taking them from other machines that they hadn't used. It doesn't happen as much anymore due to the room activation system

30-11-2008, 05:02 PM	#10
plexer Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Norfolk Posts: 4,283 Thanks: 30 Thanked 102 Times in 101 Posts Rep Power: 33	We use nylon p clips, pass the cable through these and screw them in using one of case screws. Just seeing who has logged on to a pc doesn't give you a great indication. Ben

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