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eropple on Jan 24, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: How I went from 100 to 0 things (or how I was robb...

I guess it depends on the laptop. The last time I used a lock was with a pre-Retina MBP; short of cutting the cable (doable but you'd better come prepared) or what it's attached to (ditto but probably harder) you're not getting that off without a fight.

dredmorbius on Jan 25, 2014 [–]

An angle grinder and/or drill can do wonders. If you can snip the cable, you can remove the lock head at your leisure later.

This still slows down the casual / opportunistic thief markedly, of course.

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