Something like a href="http://www.discryptor.net/" title="Discryptor" http://www.discryptor.net/ /a should be mentioned...

Yes of course, how dare they reject yet another freebie 'gift' spam that they might have to declare or get in trouble over. Especially since these locks are so useful on the train, in the car, on the loo, indeed wherever you're toting your laptop around.

Surely a locked drawer is as good as one of these things (and neater).

And of course, these devices magically encrypt all the data on the laptop and ensure that only trusted eyes can see it, thus preventing the other 99% of data loss scenarios ...


Maybe they already had locks?
Maybe they didn't / couldn't accept gifts / bribes from a company.
Maybe they emailed when they were on holiday.
Maybe they only have desktops.
Maybe Kensington just wanted an easy "story".

How about making it a legality for anyone who carries personal data on their laptop/pendrive/<insert portable device here> to first encrypt it?

TrueCrypt does the job, as do several other vendors products, at 256-bit AES standard, and I believe even an MP could manage to download and install it right!

A lot of financial institutions have allready make 256-AES standard compulsory on all portable data devices, why can't the government do the same?

Maybe most MP's already have a laptop lock, and thus don't need another free one?

It's not as if the laptop lock is a new item, they've been around for years already.

Nice job promoting Kensington though ;)

Always look beyond the façade for therein lies reality. Why would anyone give away anything in the first place ? For Love which is also known as satisfaction. Materialism has only one role and that is to elicit Love through the act of generosity. Is that up-market named thingy generosity or is it a pedlar of some variant. As such, there is no rest for the wicked for once you are a principle of something, you are always that something, 25/8 if possible. The joke here is that they are so good at angularities that they can turn the lack of cleanliness into a justification – perfumery. Can some lock really deter a determined crook ? Only an opportunitic one, of course. The truth about security for software is software itelf – encryption. Prevention is better than cure ? Agreed – software security it is. Cunning’s aim is to make others cunning and a pedlar’s aim is to make others pedlars too - for their wares, of course, but politics is such that if you can screw to other idiot-cum-lunatic to glorify yourself, you derserve to run a country.

Would I be correct in assuming you mean flout?

I guess it is too much to hope that they all ignored the offer because they had read how easy it is to break Kensington locks.

example reference http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/09/0218225&tid=172