Real Physical Security

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Houston Surveillance — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 10:49:22 GMT

I don't think that this kind of physical security is safe, anyone can break it with help of hammer or other tool.

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notnecessary — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 20:00:28 GMT

classic

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fireman — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 20:07:30 GMT

Looks like our border.

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quarl — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 23:23:46 GMT

This would be a great picture for the wikipedia article en.wikipedia.org/.../Security_theater .

But we need an unambiguous license declaration; "the picture is public on a public site" is not enough.

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Beta — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 19:52:49 GMT

@Ryan Barrett: are you serious? A better caption might be "A Waste of Steel", or "Is this 90% secure?", or "Are the Steel Links Strong Enough?"

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Bob — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 18:28:58 GMT

I worked at a factory where we did something similar at the parking lot entrance to the property. We had a hook to hang a link on, with the padlock visible. We knew it was theater, but it discouraged those whom we wanted to discourage from coming on the property. Without the theater, semis would park on our parking lot overnight. With it, no such problem. Every employee with a legitimate reason to be there did not need to carry a key. The main facility had much more elaborate security, but the security theater did what we asked of it.

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stenboj — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 17:00:16 GMT

Um.. Stefan, rhalbheer is the guy who posted the picture in the first place.Since HE thinks (and therefore intends) that by posting it to a public site he has released it for use, then I will accept his offer.

Thanks, Roger! If you give us more detail and a way to attribute the photo to you, then I'll pass that along when I use it.

Phil

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Stefan — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 16:51:23 GMT

Oh, and... Splendid picture. I wonder how many would pick the lock before realising that they could've simply cut the tie. :-)

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Stefan — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 16:49:53 GMT

rhalbeer, it is irrelevant whether the picture is on a public site or not. It is copyrighted to the author or the person who took the picture. That doesn't mean people can simply use it (just ask the UK newspaper Daily Mail about how many times they've been invoiced for images used this way without payment).

I second Contrarian in what should be asked for is a license for its use under the conditions that the author would like it to be used under. While the request for it to be licensed under Creative Commons is legitimate, it is up to the author to decide under what conditions the public are allowed to use it. If it's CC, then so be it. :-)

Roentgen, no, it doesn't take much effort to reproduce, but clearly those requesting a CC license to the image can't be bothered to reproduce it, or else they wouldn't ask.

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rhalbheer — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 16:12:35 GMT

Just to be clear: The picture is public on a public site

Roger