Just thinking... Have you ever had a problem with Kleptomaniacs in your office? anyone ever tried to steal a server or any other type of machinery?


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heh, good question :eek:

good question...
when i was working as network administrator in college we had this problem. People were stealing everything, as I remember first was VCR, few network cards, even RAM disappeard from PC.

Now I don't have this problem as all people who work with me are my friends and wouldn't steal anything

Originally posted by Lonny
Just thinking... Have you ever had a problem with Kleptomaniacs in your office? anyone ever tried to steal a server or any other type of machinery?
Never had this problem. Access control and video surveillance seem to be quite effective :-)

Cu, Moritz

Not from the office but I remeber when I was at college, over a weekend thiefs took almost all the memory sticks from the computers. That was when they were very expensive.

Just put fake cams, or real ones in the building and get some sign and put it around the building saying "This area is for authroized personel only and is constantly being monitored. Add another phrase that it is being backed up to your RAID harddrive=P"

Get that everywhere - a pen a pencil here a server some racks there.

Pay your staff well!

Originally posted by hosticle
Pay your staff well!

Choose your staff well... :)

-Bob

Originally posted by VIPsNet
even RAM disappeard from PC

Brings back a funny memory.

Once upon a time I was the sysadmin at a particular Army unit and a certain Major decided he would "borrow" some RAM from our network. This was 1992, so I cant remember the specifics now...but basically he was seen entering the headquarter building late one night without having signed in with the guard room. He then preceded to remove individual RAM chips from multiple machines, hoping to reduce the chance that we'd discover it. Obviously, *none* of the machines would boot the next morning.

He was shipped out immediately.

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Gary

I ran the computer lab during a summer program at the local middle school one year -- I actually had a kid trying to smuggle a whole iMac out of the building. But I guess when you're dealing with kids, it's different.

Get a hammer and stand guard.

I think the biggest problem with theft is laptops. We've got our laptops insured and mine (which I'm using as we speak) is kept on a security cable attached to my desk so if anybody wanted to steal it they'd have to take the whole desk out the front door :)

We can get 24/7 access to the computer buildings at the University I attend (it's 10 minutes away by train - I don't live there though... we simply swipe our student card and the doors open) although the video cameras and the security centre in the next building with people watching the monitors is pretty real :)

The University has three datacentres all about 30 minutes drive from each other - I've only seem photos of the construction.

At my old house (a week after we moved in) somebody got inside. They didn't take any of the computers, but they took the mouseball from my main one. I still to this day don't understand the logic in taking the mouseball (but it was fairly inconvenient) - they must have been kids or something.

Other than that, I've never had anything stolen.

--Shaun

Originally posted by shaunewing
I think the biggest problem with theft is laptops. We've got our laptops insured and mine (which I'm using as we speak) is kept on a security cable attached to my desk so if anybody wanted to steal it they'd have to take the whole desk out the front door :)

We can get 24/7 access to the computer buildings at the University I attend (it's 10 minutes away by train - I don't live there though... we simply swipe our student card and the doors open) although the video cameras and the security centre in the next building with people watching the monitors is pretty real :)

The University has three datacentres all about 30 minutes drive from each other - I've only seem photos of the construction.

At my old house (a week after we moved in) somebody got inside. They didn't take any of the computers, but they took the mouseball from my main one. I still to this day don't understand the logic in taking the mouseball (but it was fairly inconvenient) - they must have been kids or something.

Other than that, I've never had anything stolen.

--Shaun

I ought to get myself a security cable. Also, I carry the laptop around in a laptop backpack instead of a bag so it isn't so conspicuous.

A good friend of mine was working in a computer game shop about 8 years ago in N.E England. The shop suffered a break in one night, when some people stole some computer gear. He told me that the thieves didn't have the power supplies for the computers they'd taken though.

One day I was in the shop chatting with him, and this kid came in, walked straight to the back of the shop and started fiddling with the back of one of the computers. Of course, I knew exactly what he was doing, so I nudged my friend and they caught this kid before he escaped.

One good way of possibly preventing theft is to hold auctions of old equipment once in a while. That tends to make people happy, and it also might stop them from removing things.