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Or, maybe just add back the Kensington Security Slot and attach the laptop to yourself/desk with a strong wire and not have your laptop yanked in the first place.

I understand the first part of my idea is dead in the water, we hardly get additional ports, let alone a slot hardly anyone will use. But I would like to see a way to retrofit a KSS on a laptop.

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>Or, maybe just add back the Kensington Security Slot and attach the laptop to yourself/desk with a strong wire and not have your laptop yanked in the first place.

They could still yank you. It would pretty hard for you to execute the self destruct sequence after the undercover fbi agent knocked you over from your chair.

It all boils down to whether your adversary is mossad or not mossad [1].

1. https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1401_08-12_mickens.pdf

You could tether the kill cord to your belt loop.

Locking your laptop to a table in a cafe doesn't seem like something most folks would do. Working in a cafe was the use case I imagined when I saw this.

Yeah I still don't get this. I hate that I can't secure a Macbook. But pretty much every cheap laptop comes with a kensington lock hole.

Sure it is not _super_ secure but being able to leave my laptop for 1 minute in a public place is nice. Instead I have to put the macbook in my backpack and take it with me.

It would be interesting if you could combine the two ideas. Physically secure the laptop to the table, but also lock / shut down / wipe the drive in the event that someone cuts through the wire.

The point is to lock your laptop when the government is coming to bust you. This device would have kept Ross Ulbricht out of jail.

>This device would have kept Ross Ulbricht out of jail.

This device would had made a difference in the initial library-swipe confrontation, but would had definitely not kept Ross out of jail by any means (even that day)

Oh he certainly would have been arrested (jail), but he would have avoided prison (conviction).

He would of avoided jail (that day, the agent would have noticed the bump-kill-switch and averted recon)

He would had always of went to prison, even if they didn't get his HDD unencrypted. He used his personal email to promote his Mycology website, had the Obama administration to contend with, and was the first to sail westward.

Free Ross (The Department of Parks and Recreation)

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