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‘Step Away From the Laptop. You Are Too Close to the Laptop.’
By admin | December 17, 2009
‘Step Away From the Laptop. You Are Too Close to the Laptop.’
Between September and October last year, Simon Fraser University, in British Columbia, logged 27 reported laptop thefts. But now the university’s next would-be computer thief might be met with an alarm and a greeting from campus security.
That’s because officials have been planting a “bait” laptop, equipped with a contact-activated alarm and monitored by security staff, in common spaces around the university.
Even though the program is new and small
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