Thieves lift PCs from security show

Thieves lift PCs from security show
Lester Haines, The Register 2004-06-17

It may not be daring as the attempted heist of the Millennium Star diamond from the Millennium Dome - an audacious Sweeney-style blag involving JCB, speedboat and nail gun - but at least the wags who lifted two PCs from Asia Securitex 2004 in Hong Kong appear to have got away with it.

Thieves lift PCs from security show 2004-06-18
Anonymous

While the article is amusing and ironic and so on, the answer to the quote:

"If you can't expect good security here, where can you expect it?"

is "anywhere except a trade show!". Trade shows, almost by definition, are going to have lousy security. You put a random bunch of vendors in a strange fac...

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